Political Interventions: Social Science and Political Action - Couverture souple

Bourdieu, Pierre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844671909 ISBN 13 : 9781844671908

Editeur : Verso Books, 2008

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“France’s leading sociologist, its most influential intellectual—and one of its angriest men.”—London Review of Books

“A leading French sociologist and maverick intellectual.”—New York Times

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

“Pierre Bourdieu ... was, for many, the leading intellectual of present-day France ... a thinker in the same rank as Foucault, Barthes and Lacan.”—Guardian

“Since the 1960s Pierre Bourdieu’s terrific constancy has been there to hold us to the vision and divisions of criticism, detachment, reason, truth.”—Times Higher Education Supplement

“Bourdieu is the rare kind of intellectual author who makes sense outside of the university.”—New Statesman

Présentation de l'éditeur

Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as “a combat sport.” This comprehensive collection of his writings on politics 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844671909
• ISBN 13: 9781844671908
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 416