The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu: Critical Essays (Key Issues in Modern Sociology)

These critical essays bring together prominent scholars in the social sciences to consider the diverse nature of the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu in contemporary social theory. In offering a range of perspectives on the continuing relevance of Bourdieu’s sociology, the essays of this volume examine Bourdieu’s relationship to both classical and contemporary social theory. This collection constructs an intellectual bridge between French-speaking and English-speaking accounts of Bourdieu’s work. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8 INTRODUCTION......Page 14 CHAPTER ONE: Between Structuralism and Theory of Practice: The Cultural Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu......Page 32 References......Page 61 CHAPTER TWO: Pierre Bourdieu: Unorthodox Marxist?......Page 64 Further Textual Evidence for Viewing Bourdieu as a Non-Stalinist Marxist......Page 71 Conclusion......Page 80 Notes......Page 81 References......Page 86 Internet References......Page 88 I. Marx......Page 90 II. Bourdieu......Page 96 III. From Marx to Bourdieu......Page 113 IV. Concluding Remarks......Page 117 Notes......Page 120 References......Page 121 CHAPTER FOUR: Durkheim and Bourdieu: The Common Plinth and its Cracks......Page 122 (1) Passio Sciendi, or the Rationalist Faith in Action......Page 123 (2) Impersonal Science, Undivided and Im-Pertinent......Page 125 (3) History as a Sociological Still [Alambic]......Page 127 (4) The ‘Indirect Experimentations’ of Ethnology......Page 130 Appendix: Bourdieu’s ‘Suicide’......Page 132 Summary......Page 136 Notes......Page 137 References......Page 138 CHAPTER FIVE: With Weber Against Weber: In Conversation With Pierre Bourdieu......Page 142 Notes......Page 155 Pierre Bourdieu’s Taste......Page 156 Bourdieu’s Critique of Kant......Page 158 Taste and Power......Page 160 Power and Ressentiment......Page 162 Nietzsche’s Taste......Page 163 Nietzsche and Bourdieu......Page 165 Conclusion......Page 169 Notes......Page 170 References......Page 171 Other Sources......Page 175 CHAPTER SEVEN: Elias and Bourdieu......Page 176 Identifying (the Roots of ) the Triad......Page 178 The Triad as Deployed by Bourdieu......Page 180 The Triad as Deployed by Elias......Page 184 Sport: Twists and Turns Towards a Hand-in-Hand Approach......Page 192 Conclusion......Page 196 Notes......Page 199 References......Page 202 Introduction......Page 204 I. Preliminary Reflections on Culture......Page 205 II. Bourdieusian Reflections on Culture: The Cultural Economy......Page 207 III. Adornian Reflections on Culture: The Culture Industry......Page 215 IV. Comparative Reflections on Culture: Between Bourdieu and Adorno......Page 224 Conclusion......Page 228 Notes......Page 230 References......Page 231 CHAPTER NINE: The Grammar of an Ambivalence: On the Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu in the Critical Theory of Axel Honneth......Page 234 1. Bourdieu’s Sociology Between the Key Axes of Honneth’s Theory of the Struggle for Recognition......Page 235 2. The Asymmetrical Assessment of Bourdieu’s Sociology......Page 238 3. Political Recognition and the Bourdieusian Space within a Moral-Sociological Theory of the Struggle for Recognition......Page 240 4. Bourdieu in Honneth’s Political Sociology of Recognition......Page 244 Notes......Page 249 References......Page 250 Introduction: The Secularisation Thesis......Page 254 Bourdieu on Religion: A Preliminary Critique......Page 260 Bourdieu and the ‘New Paradigm’ in the Sociology of Religion......Page 266 Conclusion: Making Use of Bourdieu......Page 272 References......Page 273 Between Genetic Structuralism and Phenomenology: The Complex Constitution of Habitus......Page 278 Two Paths for a Genetic-Structuralist Sociology of the Plural Actor......Page 283 Corcuff and Lahire on the Dilemmas of Consciousness, Empiricism and Habitus......Page 287 Phenomenology and Sociological Fiction: A Third Genetic-Structuralist Programme for a Dynamic Habitus......Page 291 Towards a New Approach of Activism......Page 293 Conclusion: A Sociology of Contingency......Page 296 Notes......Page 297 References......Page 298 CHAPTER TWELVE: Overcoming Semiotic Structuralism: Language and Habitus in Bourdieu......Page 302 1. The Limits of the Semiotic Model of Communication......Page 304 2. Two Models of Linguistic Meaning: Validity Claims versus Practical Dispositions......Page 310 3. Language, Habitus, and Symbolic Power......Page 315 4. Linguistic Habitus and the Social Sources of Agency......Page 320 Notes......Page 325 Mise-En-Scène......Page 332 Aron’s Conception of the Relationship between Social Science and Political Action......Page 335 Aron’s Conception of the Nature of Sociology as a Science......Page 341 The ‘Aronian’ Research of Bourdieu and Passeron in the 1960s......Page 342 The Incipient Divergence between the Positions of Bourdieu and Passeron......Page 344 Emerging Differences between Bourdieu and Passeron in Respect of the Analysis of Culture......Page 346 Differences between Aron, Bourdieu and Passeron in Respect of Education......Page 350 The May ‘Events’ of 1968......Page 351 Conclusion......Page 354 References......Page 355 CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Intellectual Critique and the Public Sphere: Between the Corporatism of the Universal and the Realpolitik of Reason......Page 360 A Realpolitik of Reason......Page 361 Transcending the Political via Intellectual Critique?......Page 364 The Public Sphere and the Corporatism of the Universal......Page 366 Politics as a Corporatism of the Universal?......Page 368 Conclusion......Page 373 Notes......Page 374 References......Page 375 Introduction......Page 378 Trading the Future?......Page 380 Anticipation: Time in the Making......Page 382 Time is Money......Page 387 Money is Time......Page 389 Conclusion......Page 392 Notes......Page 393 References......Page 394 Approaching Pierre Bourdieu......Page 398 Bourdieu and Marx (I)......Page 401 Bourdieu and Marx (II)......Page 404 Bourdieu and Durkheim......Page 406 Bourdieu and Weber......Page 408 Bourdieu and Nietzsche......Page 411 Bourdieu and Elias......Page 414 Bourdieu and Adorno......Page 416 Bourdieu and Honneth......Page 419 Bourdieu and Religion......Page 421 Bourdieu and Habitus......Page 424 Bourdieu and Language......Page 428 Bourdieu and Politics......Page 431 Bourdieu and the Public Sphere......Page 433 Bourdieu and Time......Page 436 References......Page 440 INDEX OF NAMES......Page 442 INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 452 "Pierre Bourdieu is widely regarded as one of the most influential sociologists of his generation, and yet the reception of his work in different cultural contexts and academic disciplines has been varied and uneven. This volume maps out the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu in contemporary social and political thought from the standpoint of classical European sociology and from the broader perspective of transatlantic social science. It brings together contributions from prominent scholars in the field, providing a range of perspectives on the continuing relevance of Bourdieu's oeuvre to substantive problems in social and political analysis