Category Archives: Pierre Bourdieu

Books received – Moyn, Pérez, Herring, Vatulescu, Marx, Foucault

Some books bought recently. Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times; Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle, trans. Andrew Brown; Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson … Continue reading

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Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle – Polity Press, December 2023 and New Books Discussion

Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle – Polity Press, December 2023 New Books Discussion with Dave O’Brien – thanks to dmf for the link Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst … Continue reading

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Professors at the Collège de France 1985 – Bourdieu, Duby, Dumézil, Hadot, Veyne, et. al.

This photograph of professors at the Collège de France is interesting, and I’m curious about who else is in here. It was posted on Twitter by Jorge Galindo, who indicates some of the people – a. Pierre Bourdieu b. Georges … Continue reading

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Althusser’s 1963 Presentation of Bourdieu and Passeron – translated and introduced in Theory, Culture & Society

On 6 December 1963 Pierre Bourdieu and Passeron gave a seminar at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. They were introduced by Louis Althusser, and his introduction, translated by Rachel Gomme, along with a commentary by Charlotte Branchu and Derek Robbins has been published in Theory, … Continue reading

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Christian Laval, Bourdieu, Foucault et la question néolibérale – now published

Christian Laval, Bourdieu, Foucault et la question néolibérale – forthcoming now out with La Découverte Deux des intellectuels français parmi les plus importants de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, Michel Foucault et Pierre Bourdieu, ont choisi de caractériser – le … Continue reading

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10 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in October (and Sept.)

10 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in October (and Sept.) at Critical-Theory – Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, Lacan, Bourdieu, Derrida and more.

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TCS review of Pierre Bourdieu, On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992

TCS review of Pierre Bourdieu, On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992 at the TCS website, by Rohit Chopra. Pierre Bourdieu’s On the State grapples with the unthinkability of the state, seeking to bring it within the … Continue reading

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Johannes Angermuller, Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France – now out with Bloomsbury (and free download of introduction)

Johannes Angermuller, Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France – now out with Bloomsbury (and free download of introduction). French thinkers such as Lacan and Derrida are often labelled as representatives of ‘poststructuralism’ in the Anglophone world. However in France, … Continue reading

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Books received – Rancière Now, Badiou, Burke, Bourdieu, TCS and An Introduction to Political Geography

Four books from Polity in recompense for review work; the new issue of TCS; and the second edition of An Introduction to Political Geography, which I endorsed.

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Pierre Bourdieu, On the State – forthcoming from Polity

Pierre Bourdieu, On the State, three years worth of lectures at the Collège de France, is  forthcoming from Polity. I’ve never really got into Bourdieu’s work, so this might be a good opportunity – the blurb follows, but the detailed table of … Continue reading

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