The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu: Critical Essays

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
CHAPTER ONE: Between Structuralism and Theory of Practice: The Cultural Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu......Page 32
References......Page 61
CHAPTER TWO: Pierre Bourdieu: Unorthodox Marxist?......Page 64
Further Textual Evidence for Viewing Bourdieu as a Non-Stalinist Marxist......Page 71
Conclusion......Page 80
Notes......Page 81
References......Page 86
Internet References......Page 88
I. Marx......Page 90
II. Bourdieu......Page 96
III. From Marx to Bourdieu......Page 113
IV. Concluding Remarks......Page 117
Notes......Page 120
References......Page 121
CHAPTER FOUR: Durkheim and Bourdieu: The Common Plinth and its Cracks......Page 122
(1) Passio Sciendi, or the Rationalist Faith in Action......Page 123
(2) Impersonal Science, Undivided and Im-Pertinent......Page 125
(3) History as a Sociological Still [Alambic]......Page 127
(4) The ‘Indirect Experimentations’ of Ethnology......Page 130
Appendix: Bourdieu’s ‘Suicide’......Page 132
Summary......Page 136
Notes......Page 137
References......Page 138
CHAPTER FIVE: With Weber Against Weber: In Conversation With Pierre Bourdieu......Page 142
Notes......Page 155
Pierre Bourdieu’s Taste......Page 156
Bourdieu’s Critique of Kant......Page 158
Taste and Power......Page 160
Power and Ressentiment......Page 162
Nietzsche’s Taste......Page 163
Nietzsche and Bourdieu......Page 165
Conclusion......Page 169
Notes......Page 170
References......Page 171
Other Sources......Page 175
CHAPTER SEVEN: Elias and Bourdieu......Page 176
Identifying (the Roots of ) the Triad......Page 178
The Triad as Deployed by Bourdieu......Page 180
The Triad as Deployed by Elias......Page 184
Sport: Twists and Turns Towards a Hand-in-Hand Approach......Page 192
Conclusion......Page 196
Notes......Page 199
References......Page 202
Introduction......Page 204
I. Preliminary Reflections on Culture......Page 205
II. Bourdieusian Reflections on Culture: The Cultural Economy......Page 207
III. Adornian Reflections on Culture: The Culture Industry......Page 215
IV. Comparative Reflections on Culture: Between Bourdieu and Adorno......Page 224
Conclusion......Page 228
Notes......Page 230
References......Page 231
CHAPTER NINE: The Grammar of an Ambivalence: On the Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu in the Critical Theory of Axel Honneth......Page 234
1. Bourdieu’s Sociology Between the Key Axes of Honneth’s Theory of the Struggle for Recognition......Page 235
2. The Asymmetrical Assessment of Bourdieu’s Sociology......Page 238
3. Political Recognition and the Bourdieusian Space within a Moral-Sociological Theory of the Struggle for Recognition......Page 240
4. Bourdieu in Honneth’s Political Sociology of Recognition......Page 244
Notes......Page 249
References......Page 250
Introduction: The Secularisation Thesis......Page 254
Bourdieu on Religion: A Preliminary Critique......Page 260
Bourdieu and the ‘New Paradigm’ in the Sociology of Religion......Page 266
Conclusion: Making Use of Bourdieu......Page 272
References......Page 273
Between Genetic Structuralism and Phenomenology: The Complex Constitution of Habitus......Page 278
Two Paths for a Genetic-Structuralist Sociology of the Plural Actor......Page 283
Corcuff and Lahire on the Dilemmas of Consciousness, Empiricism and Habitus......Page 287
Phenomenology and Sociological Fiction: A Third Genetic-Structuralist Programme for a Dynamic Habitus......Page 291
Towards a New Approach of Activism......Page 293
Conclusion: A Sociology of Contingency......Page 296
Notes......Page 297
References......Page 298
CHAPTER TWELVE: Overcoming Semiotic Structuralism: Language and Habitus in Bourdieu......Page 302
1. The Limits of the Semiotic Model of Communication......Page 304
2. Two Models of Linguistic Meaning: Validity Claims versus Practical Dispositions......Page 310
3. Language, Habitus, and Symbolic Power......Page 315
4. Linguistic Habitus and the Social Sources of Agency......Page 320
Notes......Page 325
Mise-En-Scène......Page 332
Aron’s Conception of the Relationship between Social Science and Political Action......Page 335
Aron’s Conception of the Nature of Sociology as a Science......Page 341
The ‘Aronian’ Research of Bourdieu and Passeron in the 1960s......Page 342
The Incipient Divergence between the Positions of Bourdieu and Passeron......Page 344
Emerging Differences between Bourdieu and Passeron in Respect of the Analysis of Culture......Page 346
Differences between Aron, Bourdieu and Passeron in Respect of Education......Page 350
The May ‘Events’ of 1968......Page 351
Conclusion......Page 354
References......Page 355
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Intellectual Critique and the Public Sphere: Between the Corporatism of the Universal and the Realpolitik of Reason......Page 360
A Realpolitik of Reason......Page 361
Transcending the Political via Intellectual Critique?......Page 364
The Public Sphere and the Corporatism of the Universal......Page 366
Politics as a Corporatism of the Universal?......Page 368
Conclusion......Page 373
Notes......Page 374
References......Page 375
Introduction......Page 378
Trading the Future?......Page 380
Anticipation: Time in the Making......Page 382
Time is Money......Page 387
Money is Time......Page 389
Conclusion......Page 392
Notes......Page 393
References......Page 394
Approaching Pierre Bourdieu......Page 398
Bourdieu and Marx (I)......Page 401
Bourdieu and Marx (II)......Page 404
Bourdieu and Durkheim......Page 406
Bourdieu and Weber......Page 408
Bourdieu and Nietzsche......Page 411
Bourdieu and Elias......Page 414
Bourdieu and Adorno......Page 416
Bourdieu and Honneth......Page 419
Bourdieu and Religion......Page 421
Bourdieu and Habitus......Page 424
Bourdieu and Language......Page 428
Bourdieu and Politics......Page 431
Bourdieu and the Public Sphere......Page 433
Bourdieu and Time......Page 436
References......Page 440
INDEX OF NAMES......Page 442
INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 452