Political Interventions: Social Science and Political Action - Rilegato

Bourdieu, Pierre

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ISBN 10: 1844671895 ISBN 13: 9781844671892

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2008

Riassunto

Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of thesecond half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as "acombat sport." This comprehensive collection of his writings onpolitics and social science, from early 1960s articles on the Algerian War of Independence to the last text he published before his death, proves that this vision was enduring throughout his life – as well as a serious scholar Bourdieu was always an outspoken public intellectual.

Political Interventions includes many texts hitherto unavailable in English and, placing them in their historical context, reconstructs Bourdieu's vision of academic study and political activism as two sides of the same process: the decoding and critique of social reality in order to transform it.

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Recensione

The most convincing embodiment of the politically active intellectual since Jean-Paul Sartre of Michel Foucault. --The Times

L'autore

Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He was the author of many books, most notably Distinction, The Rules of Art, The State Nobility, Homo Academicus, The Logic of Practice, and The Weight of the World.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844671895
• ISBN 13: 9781844671892
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 398