Political interventions : social science and political action / Pierre Bourdieu ; texts selected and introduced by Franck Poupeau and Thierry Discepolo ; translated by David Fernbach.

Political interventions : social science and political action / Pierre Bourdieu ; texts selected and introduced by Franck Poupeau and Thierry Discepolo ; translated by David Fernbach.

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9781844671908 (pbk.)
1844671909 (pbk.)
9781844671892
1844671895

London ; New York : Verso, 2008.

English

Translated from the French.

xviii, 398 pages ; 24 cm

HN425.5 .B68 2008

306.201

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 early 1960s articles on the Algerian War of Independence to the last text he published before his death, proves that this vision was enduring throughout his life - as well as a serious scholar Bourdieu was always an outspoken public intellectual. Political Interventions includes many texts hitherto unavailable in English and, placing them in their historical context, reconstructs Bourdieu's vision of academic study and political activism as two sides of the same process: the decoding and critique of social reality in order to transform it.

Originally published: Interventions, 1961-2001. Science sociale & action politique. Editions Agone, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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