Pierre Bourdieu : A Critical Introduction

Lane, Jeremy F.

ISBN 10: 0745315011 / ISBN 13: 9780745315010

Published by Pluto Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pierre Bourdieu : A Critical Introduction
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745315011
• ISBN 13: 9780745315010
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This study of the work of the influential French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu places his work firmly in the context of developments both in the French post-war intellectual field an din post-war French society as a whole. Set against the background of rapid change and upheaval that has characterised post-war French society, culture and politics, Bourdieu's work can be seen as offering a peculiarly perceptive analysis of France's problematic transition to an era of late capitalism. Proceeding thematically, this study traces the development of Bourdieu's thought, elucidating the relationship between the anthropological and sociological aspects of his work, examining his debt to Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Bachelard, and highlighting his antagonistic relationship with a series of contemporary intellectual figures and movements - Barthes, Lefebvre, Touraine, Sartre, Fanon, Foucault, Derrida, structuralism and post-structuralism.

About the Author

John A Walker recently retired as Reader in Art and Design History at Middlesex University. The author of a number of books on art theory and aspects of popular culture, his other Pluto press titles include Cultural Offensive: America's Impact on British Art since 1945, and Art and Outrage: Provocation, Controversy and the Avant Garde.