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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.
Meta-Criticism: Charting Interminable Territory
Meta-Criticism: Charting Interminable Territory
The previous chapter tried to represent critically some of the criticisms that have been made of Bourdieu's work. It showed that the main local disagreements — that the work does not transfer cross-culturally or cross-temporally and that it denigrates working-class culture-all follow from the disinclination of critics to accept the particular epistemological basis of Bourdieu's projects.
In his own brief response to his critics (published as ‘Concluding remarks: for a sociogenetic understanding of intellectual works’, in Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives) Bourdieu first emphasises those misunderstandings which relate to the international circulation of ideas. He argues that consumers of his works have found grounds for criticising them either because they have synchronised them or because they have atomised them. Scrutiny of ...
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