Pierre Bourdieu

by Nicholas Brown (Editor), Imre Szeman (Editor)

The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural production. Though Bourdieu's own work has illuminated diverse cultural phenomena, the essays in this volume extend to new cultural forms and to national situations outside France. Far from simply applying Bourdieu's concepts and theoretical tools to these new contexts, the essays in this volume consider both the possibility and limits of Bourdieu's sociology for the study of culture.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

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Nicholas Brown is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature, and coeditor of Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader.

Reviews

[Dialyn Thelen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Complex, lots of different perspectives, a great introduction to Bourdieu! 👍

[Mike Mena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good variety of topics (including 3 solid feminist chapters). Recommended for intermediate Bourdieu readers interested in grasping his theory of fields through short concrete examples.