Political Interventions Pa

by Bourdieu,Pierre

• ISBN13: 9781844671908
• ISBN10: 1844671909
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

The urgent political writing of the major twentieth century sociologist. Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as "a combat sport." This comprehensive collection of his writings on politics and social science from the Algerian War of Independence in the early 1960s to the last text he published before his death bears out that this vision, far from being the product of a "turn" in the 1990s, was enduring throughout his life.

Author Biography

Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He was the author of many books, most notably Distinction, The Rules of Art, The State Nobility, Homo Academicus, The Logic of Practice, and The Weight of the World.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note	p. xi
Introduction: A Specific Kind Of Political Commitment	p. xiii
1958-1962: Political Commitment During A War Of Liberation	p. xvii
1961-1963
Colonial War and Revolutionary Consciousness	p. 3
Revolution in the revolution	p. 7
From revolutionary war to revolution	p. 14
A retrospective on the Algerian experience	p. 20
My feelings about Sartre	p. 25
1964-1970
Education and Domination	p. 31
Jacobin ideology	p. 34
'I see May 1968 as having two faces...'	p. 40
Appeal for the organization of a general assembly of teaching and research	p. 41
Some indicators for a policy of democratization	p. 46
A look back at the reception of The Inheritors and Reproduction in Education	p. 49
1971-1980
Against the Science of Political Dispossession	p. 57
The doxosophists	p. 60
Public opinion	p. 61
Intellectuals and social struggle	p. 64
Giving voice to the voiceless	p. 70
Esprit magazine and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology	p. 78
Blessed are the poor in spirit	p. 79
Dominant Ideology and Scientific Autonomy	p. 87
Declaration of intent, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales I, January 1975	p. 90
Scientific method and the social hierarchy of objects	p. 93
Declaration of intent, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 5/6, November 1975	p. 97
'Intelligence is the key virtue of the modern leader...'	p. 98
Encyclopaedia of accepted ideas and commonplaces used in neutral spaces	p. 99
The royal science and the fatalism of probability	p. 103
'And if we actually spoke about Afghanistan...'	p. 113
The culture of the rich	p. 114
The anatomy of taste	p. 115
1970-1980: political commitment and ideological shift	p. 117
1981-1986
Lay People and Professionals in Politics	p. 121
'Notice to the people'	p. 124
Politics belongs to them	p. 125
'Missed opportunities: after 1936 and 1956, 1981?'	p. 126
Rediscovering the left's libertarian tradition	p. 127
Intellectuals and established powers	p. 131
Revealing the wellsprings of power	p. 133
All racism is essentialism	p. 137
On Michel Foucault	p. 138
1984-1990
Education and Education Policy	p. 143
The naked emperors of the university	p. 147
Proposals for the future of education	p. 156
Twenty years before the College de France report	p. 159
The College de France report. Pierre Bourdieu explains	p. 160
A refusal to be cannon-fodder for the bosses	p. 167
Principles for a discussion of the contents of education	p. 173
Letter to the Iyceens of Les Mureaux	p. 181
1988-1995
Disenchantment with Politics, and a Realpolitik of Reason	p. 185
Civic virtue	p. 188
Basing criticism on a knowledge of the social world	p. 191
Our wretched state	p. 197
For Struggles on a European Scale	p. 205
For an international of intellectuals	p. 209
History rises in the east	p. 218
The political language of conservative revolutions	p. 221
Mental walls	p. 222
Intellectual responsibilities	p. 228
How to escape the circle of fear?	p. 230
Declaration of intent, Liber 25, 1995	p. 233
In the service of historical forms of universality	p. 234
The object of a writers' parliament	p. 238
Towards a Collective Intellectual	p. 243
An example of 'rational demagogy' in education	p. 247
A trompe l'oeil university reform	p. 250
One problem can be hidden by another	p. 253
Stay the hands of the murderers!	p. 254
For a party of civil peace	p. 256
Failing to assist an endangered person	p. 259
M. Pasqua, his adviser, and foreigners	p. 261
No ghettoizing of Algeria!	p. 263
Reveal and divulge the repressed	p. 265
1995-2001
Supporting Social Struggles	p. 271
A look back at the December 1995 strikes	p. 275
Appeal for a general assembly of the social movement	p. 280
In support of the march for homosexual visibility	p. 282
Combat state xenophobia	p. 284
Enough state racism!	p. 286
Neoliberalism as conservative revolution	p. 288
An upsurge of action by the unemployed	p. 294
For a left that is left	p. 296
An age of restoration	p. 300
One minister doesn't make a summer	p. 302
The contemporary relevance of Karl Kraus	p. 308
The Media in the Service of Conservative Revolution	p. 315
Liberation, twenty years on	p. 319
Questions of words	p. 321
From miscellany to a matter of state	p. 324
The misery of the media	p. 326
Questions about a misunderstanding	p. 332
Can television criticize television?	p. 333
Questions to the real masters of the world	p. 340
Resisting the Liberal Counter-Revolution	p. 347
Open letter to the members of the UN mission to Algeria	p. 351
European appeal for a just and lasting peace in the Balkans	p. 355
For an Austria in the forefront of Europe	p. 358
Manifesto for a general assembly of the European social movement	p. 362
The new planetary vulgate	p. 364
Open letter to the director-general of UNESCO on the threats posed by the GATT agreement	p. 370
Social Europe is hanging fire	p. 373
For a real mobilization of organized forces	p. 374
For a permanent organization of resistance to the new world order	p. 377
Scholars and the social movement	p. 380
How to effectively establish the critical attitude	p. 384
Index	p. 389
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