The influence of Pierre Bourdieu-one of the most protean
intellectual forces in contemporary French thought-extends far
beyond is home discipline of sociological research and thought. His
work, presented in over twenty books, lies on the borders of
philosophy, anthropology and ethnology, and cultural theory. The
present volume consists of diverse individual texts, produced
between 1980 and 1986, which take two forms: interviews in which
Bourdieu confronts a series of probing and intelligent
interviewers, and conference papers that clarify and extend
specific areas of his research. Now that Bourdieu's work has
achieved wide diffusion and celebrity, this is an appropriate time
for this volume, a pause for retrospection and resynthesis, for
corrections of misreadings and extension of previous insights, and
for projection of the next stages of his work. For this English
edition, Bourdieu's celebrated inaugural lecture at the College de
France, Lecon sur la Lecon, has been added. The texts fall into two
fundamental areas. The first area provides an overview of
Bourdieu's central concepts, never before clearly explained. The
second area clarifies the philosophical presuppositions of
Bourdieu's studies and gives an account of his relations with the
series of thinkers who formulated the problems in social and
cultural theory that still preoccupy us: Kant, Hegel, Marx,
Durkheim, Wittgenstein, Weber, Parsons, and Levi-Strauss.
Bourdieu's visions of these figures is personal and penetrating,
and in his vivacious, spontaneous responses one sees at work a mode
of thought that can in itself be a liberating tool of social
analysis. Bourdieu applies to himself the method of analyzing
cultural works that he expounds, evoking the space of theoretical
possibilities presented to him at different moments of his
intellectual itinerary.
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