Das religiöse Feld: Texte zur Ökonomie des Heilsgeschehens

by Pierre Bourdieu, Stephan Egger (Editor), Andreas Pfeuffer (Translator)

Il volume presenta la prima traduzione italiana di due importanti saggi pubblicati nel 1971 dal sociologo francese Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), Un’interpretazione della teoria della religione secondo Max Weber e Genesi e struttura del campo religioso . I traduttori si sono poi confrontati con il concetto bourdeusiano di campo religioso applicandolo a due testi della letteratura cristiana antica, la Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (Emiliano R. Urciuoli) e la Vita Melaniae (Roberto Alciati). Completano il volume, pubblicato nella collana di studi del Centro interdipartimentale di scienze religiose dell’ Università di Torino, diretta da Claudio Gianotto, un’introduzione di Roberto Alciati dedicata alla rivoluzione simbolica operata da Bourdieu e una postazione di Enzo Pace sulla fortuna italiana del sociologo francese.

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location, and symbolic violence to reveal the dynamics of power relations in social life. His work emphasized the role of practice and embodiment or forms in social dynamics and worldview construction, often in opposition to universalized Western philosophical traditions. He built upon the theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Georges Canguilhem, Karl Marx, Gaston Bachelard, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Erwin Panofsky, and Marcel Mauss. A notable influence on Bourdieu was Blaise Pascal, after whom Bourdieu titled his Pascalian Meditations.

Bourdieu rejected the idea of the intellectual "prophet", or the "total intellectual", as embodied by Sartre. His best known book is Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, in which he argues that judgments of taste are related to social position. His argument is put forward by an original combination of social theory and data from surveys, photographs and interviews, in an attempt to reconcile difficulties such as how to understand the subject within objective structures. In the process, he tried to reconcile the influences of both external social structures and subjective experience on the individual (see structure and agency).