Bourdieu: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader) 1st Edition

by Richard Shusterman (Editor)

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This Critical Reader provides a new perspective on the work of France's foremost social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, by examining its philosophical import and promoting a fruitful dialogue between Bourdieu and philosophers in the English-speaking world.

The contributors include leading philosophers who critically assess Bourdieu's philosophical theories and their significance from diverse philosophical perspectives to reveal which dimensions of his thought are the most useful for philosophy today. These discussions also raise important questions about the current institutional limits of philosophy and how those limits may be overcome through a more robust alliance with the social sciences and the practical social world.

The contributions cover Bourdieu's use of central figures in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition; his relationship to analytical philosophy and pragmatism through his concept of habitus; his position in twentieth-century continental philosophy; the political dimension of his work; the function and limits of his notion of "the field"; and the relation of his explanatory models to new directions in the philosophy of science. The book also discusses some of his most recent writing not yet translated into English, and it concludes with a chapter by Bourdieu in which he analyses the diverse structural problems and the transformations involved in importing intellectual ideas from one national field to another. The volume also offers a specially prepared comprehensive bibliography of Bourdieu's publications in French and English from 1958 to 1998.

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This Critical Reader provides a new perspective on the work of France's foremost social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, by examining its philosophical import and promoting a fruitful dialogue between Bourdieu and philosophers in the English-speaking world.

The contributors include leading philosophers who critically assess Bourdieu's philosophical theories and their significance from diverse philosophical perspectives to reveal which dimensions of his thought are the most useful for philosophy today. These discussions also raise important questions about the current institutional limits of philosophy and how those limits may be overcome through a more robust alliance with the social sciences and the practical social world.

The contributions cover Bourdieu's use of central figures in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition; his relationship to analytical philosophy and pragmatism through his concept of habitus; his position in twentieth-century continental philosophy; the political dimension of his work; the function and limits of his notion of "the field"; and the relation of his explanatory models to new directions in the philosophy of science. The book also discusses some of his most recent writing not yet translated into English, and it concludes with a chapter by Bourdieu in which he analyses the diverse structural problems and the transformations involved in importing intellectual ideas from one national field to another. The volume also offers a specially prepared comprehensive bibliography of Bourdieu's publications in French and English from 1958 to 1998.

About the Author

Richard Shusterman is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Temple University, Philadelphia, and Directeur de Programme at the Coll&egravege International de Philosophie, Paris. Educated in Jerusalem and Oxford, he was a Fulbright Professor of Philosophy in Berlin. His books include Analytic Aesthetics (1989), Pragmatist Aesthetics (1992), Sous L'interpr&eacutetation (1994) and Practicing Philosophy (1997).

Series: Blackwell Critical Reader
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (September 2, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0631188177
ISBN-13: 978-0631188179
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Sherry S.

If you are looking for a useful academic book this is not it

February 26, 2005

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Okay who ever put this book together FIRST needs to buy, read and USE the Chicago Manual of Style. I bought this book to read on my thesis. Bourdieu is difficult to under stnad through his own writing, however he is often explained well by others. That happens in this book. Where it falls down is in having ANY logical order for it's Bibliography (which grad studens would want to mine). Throughout this book the citations are (year:page). However when one goes back to the Bibliography there is no way to figure out which book they are referencing I wanted to use this to get a handle on his theories and reference me to other works so that I could see in his own texts where he was discussing his own ideas. You cannot do that with this book. When I see a citation of (1990e:34). I expect to find in a well ordered bibliography a reference to the fifth book or article he published in 1990. No such luck. If you just want to read about his stuff this is an okay book. If you want an actually useful book from which you can expand what you are working on, skip it.

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