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Imaginative Response to Imaginary Threat,
By Herbert Gintis (Northampton, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Science of Science and Reflexivity (Paperback)
Throughout his life, Pierre Bourdieu found himself embracing yet moderating the radical tendencies that characterize French intellectual life. When Marxism was rampant (infecting even J. P. Sartre), Bourdieu offered a critical stance on capitalist inequality that recognized the power of capital and the oppressive nature of hierarchy, while at the same time rejecting historical materialism and the necessity/desirability of revolution. With Marxism quelled, the French intelligencia turns its spotlight on what it perceived as the overextended claims of modern science, and responded with a thorough "post-modern" critique of the pretensions of science. Bourdieu here takes a middle ground according to which science deserves an exalted position, but this position is reserved almost exclusively for a critical science that recognizes the constraining power relations and the inequalities of modern society, and uses its power to contain and reverse the dominance relations in modern society.
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Science of Science and Reflexivity by Pierre Bourdieu (Paperback - November 1, 2004)
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