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  • Distinction

    A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Richard Nice ...
    No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France’s leading sociologist focuses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind.In the course of everyday life people ... Read more

    $38.29 USD

  • Outline of a Theory of Practice

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Richard Nice ...
    Series Book 16 - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Social Structures of the Economy

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Return to Reflexivity

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    This slim volume contains four little-known texts by Pierre Bourdieu on the question of reflexivity, which was a key theme in his work.For Bourdieu, reflexivity was not an exercise in introspection but rather a way of applying the tools of sociology to itself. The aim is to make explicit and control the effects of the presuppositions, standpoints and dispositions that the researcher brings to the ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Imperialisms

    The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    While Bourdieu’s work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, his writings on the phenomena of internationalization and imperialism have received much less attention. Bourdieu’s analyses of the international circulation of ideas and the imperialisms of the universal – where two political powers, such as the United States and France, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • On the State

    Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989 - 1992

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    What is the nature of the modern state? How did it come into being and what are the characteristics of this distinctive field of power that has come to play such a central role in the shaping of all spheres of social, political and economic life?In this major work the great sociologist Pierre Bourdieu addresses these fundamental questions. Modifying Max Weber’s famous definition, Bourdieu defines ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Manet

    A Symbolic Revolution

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Peter Collier, Margaret Rigaud-Drayton ...
    What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Édouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s, before making it the focus of his lectures in his last years at the Collége de France. This second volume of Bourdieu's previously ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Economic Anthropology

    Lectures at the College de France, 1992 - 1993

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    Has the revolution that led from the economy of the gift, characteristic of most precapitalist societies, to the economy of modern societies been accomplished in all spheres of life, as tacitly assumed by those who claim to apply the model of the profit-optimizing agent to every practice – to art, to education and even to marriage, seen as an exchange of economic services of production and ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • The Interest in Disinterestedness

    Lectures at the College de France 1987-1989

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, for the public good. But is disinterested behaviour possible? Can law be treated as a set of universal rules that are independent of particular interests, or is this mere ideology? Is the state ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Pierre Bourdieu

    Fieldwork in Culture

    by Jon Beasley-Murray, Carolyn Betensky, Pierre Bourdieu, Bo G. Ekelund, John Guillory, Robert Holton, Marty Hipsky, Marie-Pierre Le Hir, Paul D. Lopes, Caterina Pizanias, Daniel Simeoni, Carol A. Stabile ...
    Series series Culture and Education Series
    The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Sociologist and the Historian

    by Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier ...
    In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the first time, these conversations are an accessible and engaging introduction to the work of these two great thinkers, who discuss their work and explore the similarities and differences between their ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • What Is a People?

    by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Kevin Olson ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series Book 50 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD