Bourdieu and Culture

Author:   Professor Derek Robbins
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
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Pages:   192
Publication Date:   20 December 1999
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Bourdieu and Culture is an accessible and balanced introduction to Bourdieu''s work, placing him in an appropriate intellectual and historical context. Robbins argues that Bourdieu is best understood as a cultural analyst.'

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Author:   Professor Derek Robbins
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9780761960447


ISBN 10:   0761960449
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   20 December 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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PART ONE: THE CAREER An Insider/Outside Frenchman PART TWO: THE CONCEPTS The Socio-Genesis of the Thinking Instruments Production, Reception and Reproduction PART THREE: THE CASE STUDIES Flaubert and the Social Ambivalence of Literary Invention Courr[gr]eges, the Fashion System and Anti-Semiology Manet, the Mus[ac]ee d′Orsay and the Installation of Art PART FOUR: THE CRITICISMS Evaluating Fragmented Responses Meta-Criticism Charting Interminable Territory Conclusion Commending the Bourdieu Paradigm: The Sociologist as Conceptual Artist

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Derek Robbins is Professor of International Social Theory in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London. He is the author of The Work of Pierre Bourdieu (1991) and of Bourdieu and Culture (2000); the editor of the 4-volume collection of articles on Bourdieu in the Sage Masters of Contemporary Social Thought series (2000) and of a 3-volume collection of articles on Lyotard in the same series (2004). His On Bourdieu, Education and Society was published by Bardwell Press in July, 2006, and he was the editor of the Special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Bourdieu which was published as 23 (6) in November, 2006. In 2007-8 he was in receipt of an ESRC award to study the work of Jean-Claude Passeron, and he has written an introduction to a translation of Passeron′s Le raisonnement sociologique which will be published in 2011 by Bardwell Press, Oxford, as Sociological Reasoning. As Directeur associé in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Marseille in 2009-10 he gave courses on the comparative epistemology of the social sciences, and he is currently exploring the influence of Husserl on 20th Century French social theory, particularly in relation to the development of the thought of Lyotard and Bourdieu.

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