Research Catalog

Title

Political interventions : social science and political action / Pierre Bourdieu ; texts selected and introduced by Franck Poupeau and Thierry Discepolo ; translated by David Fernbach.

Author

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002

Publication

London ; New York : Verso, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Poupeau, Franck
• Discepolo, Thierry.

Description

xviii, 398 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Speeches. Selections

Alternative Title

Speeches.

Subject

• Political sociology
• France > Social conditions
• Algeria > Social conditions

Note

• Originally published: Interventions, 1961-2001. Science sociale & action politique. Editions Agone, 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1961-1963: Colonial war and revolutionary consciousness -- 1964-1970: Education and domination -- 1971-1980: Against the science of political dispossession -- Dominant ideology and scientific autonomy -- 1981-1986: Lay people and professionals in politics -- 1984-1990: Education and Education policy -- 1988-1995: Disenchantment with politics, and a realpolitik of reason -- For struggles on a European scale -- Towards a collective intellectual -- 1995-2001: Supporting social struggles -- The media in the service of conservative revolution -- Resisting the liberal counter-revolution.

ISBN

• 9781844671892 (hbk.)
• 1844671895 (hbk.)
• 9781844671908 (pbk.)
• 1844671909 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008276700

OCLC

• 154706794
• SCSB-12756472

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library