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A synthesis of forty years work by France s leading sociologist, this book pushes the critique of scholarly reason to a new level. It is a brilliant example of Bourdieu s unique ability to link sociological theory, historical information, and philosophical thought. Pascalian Meditations makes explicit the presuppositions of a state of scholasticism, a certain leisure liberated from the urgencies of the world. Philosophers, unwilling to engage these presuppositions in their practice, have brought them into the order of discourse, not so much to analyze them as to legitimate them. This situation is the primary systematic, epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic error that Bourdieu subjects to methodological critique.

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This latest book by France's preeminent sociologist provides a compact presentation of his concerns, methods, and leading concepts. . . . The book will be an excellent introduction to Bourdieu's fruitful thought for philosophers and social theorists. -- Ethics

This book will surely endure a a major classic of late twentieth-century social theory. _-Philosophy in Review This latest book by France's preeminent sociologist provides a compact presentation of his concerns, methods, and leading concepts... The book will be an excellent introduction to Bourdieu's fruitful thought for philosophers and social theorists. -Ethics

This book will surely endure a a major classic of late twentieth-century social theory. _-Philosophy in Review This latest book by France's preeminent sociologist provides a compact presentation of his concerns, methods, and leading concepts... The book will be an excellent introduction to Bourdieu's fruitful thought for philosophers and social theorists. -- Ethics

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Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Stanford University Press has published eleven other books by Bourdieu, most recently The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Societies (1999).

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