Homo Academicus

Homo Academicus

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  • Author: Pierre Bourdieu
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780804717984
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 374

In this highly original work, Pierre Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world of which he is part and offers a brilliant analysis of modern intellectual culture. The academy is shown to be not just a realm of dialogue and debate, but also a sphere of power in which reputations and careers are made, defended and destroyed. Employing the distinctive methods for which he has become well known, Bourdieu examines the social background and practical activities of his fellow academics--from Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan to figures who are lesser known but not necessarily less influential. Bourdieu analyzes their social origins and current positions, how much they publish and where they publish it, their institutional connections, media appearances, political involvements and so on. This enables Bourdieu to construct a map of the intellectual field in France and to analyze the forms of capital and power, the lines of conflict and the patterns of change, which characterize the system of higher education in France today. Homo Academicus paints a vivid and dynamic picture of French intellectual life today and develops a general approach to the study of modern culture and education. It will be of great interest to students of sociology, education and politics as well as to anyone concerned with the role of intellectuals and higher education today.


Homo academicus

Homo academicus

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  • Author: Pierre Bourdieu
  • Publisher: Siglo XXI de España Editores
  • ISBN: 8432313378
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : es
  • Pages : 322

En Homo academicus, Pierre Bourdieu aplica su agudeza sociológica y su capacidad interpretativa a su propio grupo, el de los profesores universitarios franceses. Al hacerlo nos da una oportunidad de entender mejor su propio trabajo, a los académicos en general, y nosotros mismos en particular. Bourdieu demuestra que el campo de la universidad, entendido como un conjunto de relaciones objetivas entre las varias posiciones y disciplinas resultantes de la distribución de estas especies de capital, es el lugar de una lucha constante destinada a alterar su misma estructura. El poder académico y el prestigio intelectual son, al mismo tiempo, armas y objetos en pugna en la lucha académica de todos contra todos. A lo largo de sus páginas, cobran vida las nociones de capital, habitus, campo, y violencia simbólica, las cuales forman el fundamento conceptual de su teoría de la práctica. De manera sustancial, el libro también trata de un tópico que Bourdieu ha tendido a descuidar en sus más conocidas incursiones previas: la dinámica de la crisis y transformación estructural. El último capítulo en donde Bourdieu presenta un análisis de los eventos de Mayo del 68 contiene el embrión de una teoría de la revolución como el producto de la sincronización de crisis localizadas en campos estructuralmente homólogos, y una reflexión sobre la espontaneidad y la determinación en los movimientos sociales y en la acción política.


Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu

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  • Author: Richard Jenkins
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317857909
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasizes Bourdieu's contributions to theory and methodology while also dealing in detail with his substantive studies of education, social stratification and culture. His book provides the best short English-language introduction to Bourdieu's work. 'As Jenkins points out in the final pages of his book, criticism can be the sincerest form of flattery. I particularly relished his critical approach to the work of Bourdieu and believe that he has written a timely introduction which both undergraduates and experienced teachers will find stimulating and enjoyable.'- Mike Hepworth, University of Aberdeen


Writing Robert Greene

Writing Robert Greene

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  • Author: Kirk Melnikoff
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134787731
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 275

Robert Greene, contemporary of Shakespeare and Marlowe and member of the group of six known as the "University Wits," is the subject of this essay collection, the first to be dedicated solely to his work. Although in his short lifetime Greene published some three dozen prose works, composed at least five plays, and was one of the period's most recognized-even notorious-literary figures, his place within the canon of Renaissance writers has been marginal at best. Writing Robert Greene offers a reappraisal of Greene's career and of his contribution to Elizabethan culture. Rather than drawing lines between Greene's work for the pamphlet market and for the professional theatres, the essays in the volume imagine his writing on a continuum. Some essays trace the ways in which Greene's poetry and prose navigate differing cultural economies. Others consider how the full spectrum of his writing contributes to an emergent professional discourse about popular print and theatrical culture. The volume includes an annotated bibliography of recent scholarship on Greene and three valuable appendices (presenting apocrypha; edition information; and editions organized by year of publication).


The Moderns

The Moderns

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  • Author: Paul Julian Smith
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780198160007
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 232

This book offers a radically new account of the rich and varied culture of contemporary Spain. It focuses on three intellectuals who chronicle contemporary life (including journalist Francisco Umbral); three filmmakers who engage with the many nationalisms of the Spanish state (Victor Erice,Bigas Luna, and Julio Medem); and three crucial topics that are expressed in many media (the replaying of history, the rise and fall of the city, and the practice of everyday life). Ranging from the ethnographic photography of Cristina Garcia Rodero to the high tech architecture of SantiagoCalatrava and from the hyperrealist painting of Antonio Lopez to the neo-flamenco dance of Joaquin Cortes, this book is also the first to draw on theorists of the intellectual field, the production of space, and the arts of bricolage (Pierre Bourdieu, Henri Lefebvre, and Michel de Certeau). Refutingthe charge that contemporary Spanish culture is trivial or superficial, this book argues that it is fully engaged in the aesthetic and historical project of modernity.


Hip-Hop within and without the Academy

Hip-Hop within and without the Academy

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  • Author: Karen Snell
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN: 0739176501
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 237

As a platform for communicating the issues of marginalized peoples, hip-hop remains a universal, relevant art form. Moreover, hip-hop culture’s affirmation of liberation pedagogy has great potential not only to address many current issues in educational contexts, but also to create more egalitarian ambitions in western public schools.


1922-2022

1922-2022

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  • Author: Carolina Esser
  • Publisher: Editora Dialética
  • ISBN: 6525294347
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168

In 2022, the 100th anniversary of the so-called "Critical Theory," the antithesis of "Traditional Theory", was celebrated. 100 years ago, the first founding memorandum of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt was written. In 2022, the world and legal theory are surprised by numerous new challenges, such as a war as not been seen for a long time, which requires an uprising to resignify the Critical Theory and its relevance within theories of justice and freedom, as well as a celebration of truly critical dialogues. The present collection brings together experienced legal theory researchers, who revive the critical theory from the current demands of law. Critical thinkers have been developing reflections on capitalism in a way that considers not just economic perspectives, but also individual's social and cultural spheres of life.


Bourdieu and Culture

Bourdieu and Culture

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  • Author: Derek Robbins
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 9780761960447
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 198

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.


Principalities and Powers

Principalities and Powers

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  • Author: Jamie Pitts
  • Publisher: Lutterworth Press
  • ISBN: 0718842162
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 264

Principalities and Powers is an ambitious analysis of John Howard Yoder's complex sociological theory. Jamie Pitts' work transcends ideological boundaries, which have perplexed the many writers who have approached the legacy of John Howard Yoder after his death in 1997. Although there is much disagreement, a broad consensus is forming that his theology was, on the one hand, focused on the social and political meaning of the New Testament accounts of Jesus Christ and, on the other hand, sociologically reductive, hermeneutically tendentious and ecclesiologically ambiguous. Principalities and Powers proposes a revision of Yoder's theology that maintains its broadly sociological emphasis but corrects for its apparent methodological, political and metaphysical problems. Specifically, adjustments are made to his social theory to open it to spiritual reality, to hone its analytical approach, and to clarify its political import. To do so his preferred framework for social criticism, the theology of the principalities and powers, is examined in the context of his wider work and its critics, and then synthesized with concepts from Pierre Bourdieu's influential reflexive sociology.


The Bourdieu paradigm

The Bourdieu paradigm

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  • Author: Derek Robbins
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • ISBN: 1526127717
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

Analysing the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, this book considers the historical development of competing philosophies of social science. It examines the relations between phenomenology, Gestalt psychology and empirical social science in the first half of the twentieth century and then explores the way in which Bourdieu responded to this legacy by advocating a form of reflexive social-scientific investigation, which would remain faithful to primary experience without disowning accumulated intellectualism. The book asks whether the Bourdieu ‘paradigm’ retains value beyond the French conditions of its production. It offers an analysis of the development of Bourdieu’s thought and practice which constitutes an invitation to readers generally to reassess the value of the western tradition of the social function of the detached intellectual for mass democratic societies.