Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780631188186
Year: 1999
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 288


Description:
This Critical Reader provides a new perspective on the work
of France's foremost social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, by examining
its philosophical import and promoting a fruitful dialogue between
Bourdieu and philosophers in the English-speaking world.


The contributors include leading philosophers who critically
assess Bourdieu's philosophical theories and their significance
from diverse philosophical perspectives to reveal which dimensions
of his thought are the most useful for philosophy today. These
discussions also raise important questions about the current
institutional limits of philosophy and how those limits may be
overcome through a more robust alliance with the social sciences
and the practical social world.



The contributions cover Bourdieu's use of central figures in the
Anglo-American philosophical tradition; his relationship to
analytical philosophy and pragmatism through his concept of
habitus; his position in twentieth-century continental philosophy;
the political dimension of his work; the function and limits of his
notion of "the field"; and the relation of his explanatory models
to new directions in the philosophy of science. The book also
discusses some of his most recent writing not yet translated into
English, and it concludes with a chapter by Bourdieu in which he
analyses the diverse structural problems and the transformations
involved in importing intellectual ideas from one national field to
another. The volume also offers a specially prepared comprehensive
bibliography of Bourdieu's publications in French and English from
1958 to 1998.