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Pierre Bourdieu's political economy of being / Ghassan Hage.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hage, Ghassan, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.
- Bourdieu, Pierre.
- Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002--Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 166 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the work of the late twentieth-century social theorist, offering an investigation of Bourdieu's work as a whole and revitalizing popular and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Hage argues that a political economy of being, a vision of society as an assemblage concerned with the production and distribution of social being, and the complementing image of social agents struggling to define, legitimize and maximize their conception of a viable life permeates all of Bourdieu's work. Hage carries the reader through a constellation of key anthropological and sociological concepts that make up this political economy, bringing different insights into Bourdieu's work-most centrally, that "Being" for Bourdieu can be equated to viable life. The book ends by examining the way Bourdieu conceives peoples' struggle for social viability in the face symbolic domination and the role of the social sciences in this struggle"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Political Economy of Being . . . and How to Analyze It
- Social Efficiency and Social Complicity
- Structure, Capacity, and Dispositionality
- On the Production and Distribution of the Meaningful Life
- The Means and Ends of Recognition
- The Social Physics of Existential Mobility
- Viability and the Politics of Existential Ecologies
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hage, Ghassan. Pierre Bourdieu's political economy of being.
- ISBN:
- 9781478061472
- 1478061472
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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