Symbolic violence : conversations with Bourdieu
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Symbolic violence : conversations with Bourdieu
Duke University Press, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-216) and index
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In Symbolic Violence Michael Burawoy brings Pierre Bourdieu into an extended debate with Marxism-a tradition Bourdieu ostensibly avoided. While Bourdieu's expansive body of work stands as a critique of Marx's inadequate account of cultural domination, Burawoy shows how Bourdieu's eschewal and rejection of Marxism led him to miss out on a number of productive theoretical engagements. In eleven "conversations," Burawoy outlines the intellectual and biographical parallels and divergences between Bourdieu and the work of preeminent Marxist thinkers. Among many topics, Burawoy examines Bourdieu's appropriation and silencing of Beauvoir and her theory of masculine domination; the commonalities as well as differences in Bourdieu's and Fanon's thought on colonialism and revolution; the extent to which Gramsci's theory of hegemony aligns with Bourdieu's notion of symbolic violence; and both how Freire and Bourdieu understood education as the site of oppression. In showing how Bourdieu has more in common with these thinkers than Bourdieu himself cared to admit, Burawoy offers a critical assessment of Bourdieu's work that illuminates its paradoxes and reaffirms its significance for the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Encountering Bourdieu 1
1. Sociology Is a Combat Sport: From Parsons to Bourdieu 18
2. The Poverty of Philosophy: Marx Meets Bourdieu 33
3. Cultural Domination: Gramsci Meets Bourdieu 59
4. Colonialism and Revolution: Fanon Meets Bourdieu 76
5. Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Freire Meets Bourdieu 94
6. The Antinomies of Feminism: Beauvoir Meets Bourdieu 110
7. The Sociological Imagination: Mills Meets Bourdieu 133
8. The Twofold Truth of Labor: Burawoy Meets Bourdieu 148
9. The Weight of the World: Bourdieu Meets Bourdieu 172
Conclusion: The Limits of Symbolic Violence 191
Notes 201
References 209
Index 217
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