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Pierre Bourdieu - Agent Provocateur (Hardcover)
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Pierre Bourdieu - Agent Provocateur (Hardcover)
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The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as a
leading intellectual of the late twentieth-century, and one whose
ideas are very much relevant for the twenty-first. This
comprehensive account of Bourdieu's life and work locates both in
their social and political context, thereby tracing the origins of
his ideas and theories. It explains and explores just what Bourdieu
argued for and why. It also illustrates the social, political and
philosophical strands that run through his work. Michael Grenfell's
broad scope takes in Bourdieu's response to The Algerian Crisis,
his ideas for the reform of state education, and his views on
aesthetics and the mass media. Detailed attention is also paid to
Bourdieu's overtly political stance, including his critique of
capitalism and his opposition to recent Western military action in
Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. This book offers a reading of
Bourdieu's work as a coherent and valuable response to those key
social and political issues, events and trends that combined to
shape contemporary society. The implications and consequences of
his work are laid out and assessed, along with suggestions for
where his ideas might be taken from here. This is the clearest and
most thorough account of Bourdieu's work available; as such, it
will be invaluable to students, researchers and teachers of
contemporary social theory.
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