Pierre Bourdieu : a heroic structuralism / by Jean-Louis Fabiani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabiani, Jean-Louis, author.

Series:

Youth in a globalizing world ; Volume 12.

Youth in a Globalizing World ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Structuralism.

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.

Bourdieu, Pierre.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

Can one speak dispassionately today about Pierre Bourdieu? The extraordinary success of his work and its agonistic dimension makes things quite difficult. Jean-Louis Fabiani's book is an attempt to apply Bourdieu's analytical tools to his own work as he invited us in his reflexive sociology. Testing their limitations and their potential ambiguity allows the author to shed new light on the social genesis of his main concepts (field, habitus and capital) and on the complex relationship between science and politics. While the sociologist's systemic ambition is never taken for granted, it remains possible to reveal its hidden grandeur. Professor Jean-Louis Fabiani is the winner of the 2020 CEU Award for Outstanding Research [Click here to read the interview with Professor Jean-Louis Fabiani on the occasion of receiving the award].

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Impossible Theory of Fields

2 The Habitus at the Risk of Cleavage

3 Capital and Its Species

4 The Methodological Inventiveness

5 Event, Structure and History

6 A Narrative for Two Audiences

7 From the Public Service to the Redefinition of Public Interest

8 From Suffering to Love

9 A Hero's Life

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index Nominum.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-44261-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004442610 DOI