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An accessible and readable introduction to Bourdieu's work, this book places him in intellectual and historical context, and shows how Bourdieu is best understood as a cultural analyst. It traces his development from his early work on education to his relationship to cultural sociology and cultural studies. The book also gives detailed examples, drawn from Bourdieu's own work, to show how he makes sense of contemporary culture. Robbins guides the reader authoritatively through Bourdieu's wide-ranging body of theoretical and analytical work and offers a framework within which the most recent aspects of that work can be understood.
Courrèges, the Fashion System and Anti-Semiology
Courrèges, the Fashion System and Anti-Semiology
The conclusion of Bourdieu's account of Flaubert's social situation was that Flaubert had taken refuge in constructing an ‘artist's life’ and had transposed his social perceptions into ‘art’. It was important for Bourdieu that we should not fall into the same trap in responding to Flaubert. Formalist responses to Flaubert's formalism had to be doubly sociologised-by recognising both the social circumstances in which the formalism was produced and also the social circumstances of the formalist mode of reception. Without this double sociological recognition, the literary formalism which was in origin pathological would be socially reproduced and the pathology sustained.1 Bourdieu admired so much, and quoted so often, A. Cassagne's La Théorie de l'art pour ...
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