In Symbolic Violence Michael Burawoy brings Pierre Bourdieu into an
extended debate with Marxism-a tradition Bourdieu ostensibly
avoided. While Bourdieu's expansive body of work stands as a
critique of Marx's inadequate account of cultural domination,
Burawoy shows how Bourdieu's eschewal and rejection of Marxism led
him to miss out on a number of productive theoretical engagements.
In eleven "conversations," Burawoy outlines the intellectual and
biographical parallels and divergences between Bourdieu and the
work of preeminent Marxist thinkers. Among many topics, Burawoy
examines Bourdieu's appropriation and silencing of Beauvoir and her
theory of masculine domination; the commonalities as well as
differences in Bourdieu's and Fanon's thought on colonialism and
revolution; the extent to which Gramsci's theory of hegemony aligns
with Bourdieu's notion of symbolic violence; and both how Freire
and Bourdieu understood education as the site of oppression. In
showing how Bourdieu has more in common with these thinkers than
Bourdieu himself cared to admit, Burawoy offers a critical
assessment of Bourdieu's work that illuminates its paradoxes and
reaffirms its significance for the twenty-first century.
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