Research Catalog

Title

Firing back : against the tyranny of the market 2 / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Loïc Wacquant.

Author

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002

Publication

London ; New York : Verso, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wacquant, Loïc J. D.

Description

96 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Globalization's threat to artists and intellectuals, and how they can rebut it. Pierre Bourdieu, described by The Nation as "worthy of the militant mantle of Sartre and Foucault," here continues the themes advanced so successfully in his previous book Acts of Resistance. Firing Back is an eloquent dissection of globalization's intellectual and cultural role throughout the world, and a discussion of the ways in which effective opposition to it can be mounted. Bourdieu examines Europe's potential as a counterweight to America's globalizing policy and discusses how intellectuals and those working in the cultural sphere can create meaningful alternatives. He also raises challenging questions about the depoliticization of the academic world, arguing that scholars can no longer maintain that their research is objective or value-free.

Uniform Title

Contre-feux 2. English

Alternative Title

Contre-feux 2.

Subject

• Since 1945
• Social action > Europe
• Social movements > Europe
• Europe > Economic conditions > Social aspects. > 1945-
• Europe > Economic policy > Citizen participation

Note

• Originally published as: Contre-feu 2.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Letter to the American reader -- Preface -- For a scholarship with commitment -- the invisible hand of the powerful -- against the policy of depoliticization -- For a European social movement -- Grains of sand -- culture is in danger -- Unite and rule.

ISBN

1859846580 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 53172028
• SCSB-10677803

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library