Pierre Bourdieu
Theory and Politics
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 11 September 2025
- ISBN 9781032752556
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 370 g
- Language English 779
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Short description:
This book examines the issue of Bourdieu’s so-called “political turn,” a significant topic in the French press and academic world. It explores whether the relationship between Bourdieu's increasingly visible political engagement from the mid-1990s and his earlier scientific work should be understood in terms of continuity or discontinuity.
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Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most prominent figures in 20th-century sociology. His influence remains substantial even after his death in 2002, and his views and findings continue to divide sociologists to this day.
This book examines the issue of Bourdieu’s so-called “political turn,” a significant topic in the French press and academic world. It explores whether the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's increasingly visible political engagement from the mid-1990s and his earlier scientific work should be understood in terms of continuity or discontinuity.
To investigate this specific issue, it is essential to discuss some basic concepts and significant insights of Bourdieu's social theory. The book also considers the robustness of Bourdieu’s theoretical framework and his criticisms of neoliberal capitalism from the perspective of Luc Boltanski’s competing pragmatic sociology.
The book concludes that although Bourdieu, as a devoted left-wing intellectual, saw the possibility of resisting the neoliberal world order through mass mobilisation, inciting masses to collective action remains problematic within his sociological and anthropological framework. Through a systematic discussion of Bourdieu’s theory, the book offers insights into the relationship between science and politics and hopes to provide an opportunity for a deeper understanding of his work.
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Introduction, 1. The myth of “two Bourdieus”, 2. The birth and rise of Bourdieusian sociology, 3. The outlines of Bourdieu’s “theory of action”, 4. Bourdieu’s and Boltanski’s contrasting social theories, 5. The epistemic foundations of intervening in social processes, 6. On Bourdieu’s “social determinism”, 7. Truth as politics? The genesis of truth in the scientific field, 8. The beginnings of a public engagement?, 9. The possibility of social critique and political action in Bourdieu and Boltanski, 10. The traces and possibility of rational action in Bourdieu’s sociology, Conclusion
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