Do social classes really exist? Is disinterested action really
possible? What do the family, the church, and the intellectual
world have in common? Can morality be founded on hypocrisy? What is
the "subject" of action? In this new volume, one of France's
foremost social thinkers of our time responds to these major
questions and to others, thus tracing the outlines of a work that
could be called "Pierre Bourdieu by himself."
In these texts, the author tries to go to the essential, that is,
the most elementary and fundamental, questions. He thereby explains
the philosophical principles that have led to his social science
research and the idea of the human that guides his choices there.
With the lucidity allowed by retrospect, Bourdieu brings out the
fundamental theories of his greatest books, notably "Outline of a
Theory of Practice" and "The Logic of Practice" (Stanford, 1990),
and, with an eye to the future, presents the first results of his
most recent work on the state, the anthropological moorings of the
economy, and male domination.
Bourdieu's theory is both a philosophy of science dedicated to
revealing the objective relations that shape and underpin social
life, and a philosophy of action that takes account of agents'
dispositions as well as the structured situations in which they
act. This philosophy of action is condensed in a small number of
key concepts--habitus, field, capital--and it is defined by the
two-way relationship between the objective structures of social
fields and the incorporated structures of the habitus.
All in all, this book should be an indispensable introduction to
Bourdieu's work, not only to students and scholars in sociology,
anthropology, political science, and philosophy, but throughout the
social sciences and humanities generally.
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