Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher, whose work spanned a broad range of subjects from ethnography to art, literature, education, language, cultural tastes, and television. Bourdieu outlined his theory of cultural production primarily in two books, The Field of Cultural Production (1993) and The Rules of Art (1996), building upon the concepts of habitus, capital and field.
Contents
Works
Works are in French unless otherwise stated. Green and blue links point to digital versions of publications available on Monoskop or other digital libraries (sometimes using abbreviations). |
Books
- Sociologie de l'Algérie, 1958; rev.ed., 1961.
- The Algerians, trans. Allan Ross, Beacon Press, 1962, PDF. (English)
- with Alain Darbel, Jean-Paul Rivet, and Claude Seibel, Travail et travailleurs en Algérie, 1963.
- with Abdelmalek Sayad, Le déracinement: la crise de l'agriculture traditionelle en Algérie, 1964.
- with Jean-Claude Passeron, Les hérities: les étudiants et la culture, Paris: Minuit, 1964; 1966, PDF.
- The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relation to Culture, trans. Richard Nice, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1979, PDF. (English)
- editor, Un art moyen: essais sur les usages sociaux de la photographie, intro. Philippe de Vendeuvre, Paris: Minuit, 1965, 361 pp. Review.
- Bourdieu, et al., Photography: A Middle-brow Art, trans. Shaun Whiteside, Cambridge: Polity Press, with Blackwell Publishers, 1990, 218 pp, Log. (English)
- with Alain Dardel, L'amour de l'art: les musées et leur public, Paris: Minuit, 1966.
- with Jean-Claude Chamboredon and Jean-Claude Passeron, Le métier de sociologue: préalables épistémologiques, Paris: Mouton de Gruyter, 1968.
- The Craft of Sociology. Epistemological Preliminaries, edited by Beate Krais, trans. Richard Nice, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyer, 1991, PDF.
- with Jean-Claude Passeron, La reproduction: elèments pour une théorie du système d'enseignement, Paris: Minuit, 1970, PDF.
- La riproduzione. Elementi per una teoria del sistema scolastico, trans. Giampiero Mughini, Rimini: Guaraldi, 1972, PDF. (Italian)
- Reproduction in Education, Society, and Culture, trans. Richard Nice, Sage Publications, 1990, PDF. (English)
- La reproduccion. Elementos para una teoría del sistema de enseñanza, trans. J. Melendres and M. Subirats, Barcelona: Laia, 1979; Mexico: Distribuciones Fontamara, 1995; 2nd ed., 1996, PDF. (Spanish)
- Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique, précéde de Trois études d'ethnologie kabyle, Geneva: Droz, 1972.
- Algérie 60: structures économiqes et structures temporelles, 1977.
- La distinction: Critique sociale du jugement de goût, Paris: Minuit, 1979.
- Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. Richard Nice, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984, PDF. (English)
- Questions de sociologie, Paris: Minuit, 1980; 2002, PDF.
- Ce que parler veut dire: l'économie des échanges linguistiques, Paris: Fayard, 1982.
- Economia bunurilor simbolice, trans. Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1986, 321 pp. (Romanian)
- Language and Symbolic Power, trans. Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991, PDF. (English)
- Homo academicus, Paris: Minuit, 1984, PDF.
- La Sociologie de Bourdieu: textes choisis et commentés, eds. Alain Accardo and Philippe Corcuff, 1986.
- Choses dites, Paris: Minuit, 1987.
- L'ontologie politique de Martin Heidegger, Paris: Minuit, 1988.
- The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger, trans. Peter Collier, Stanford University Press, 1991, PDF. (English)
- La Noblesse d'état: grandes écoles et esprit de corps, Paris: Minuit, 1989.
- The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power, trans. Lauretta Clough, 1996. (English)
- O poder simbolico, trans. Fernando Tomaz, Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand Brazil, 1989, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- with Loïc Wacquant, Réponses pour une anthropologie réflexive, Paris: Seuil, 1992, PDF.
- An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, University of Chicago Press, 1992, ARG. (English)
- Les régles de l'art: genèse et structure du champ littéraire, Paris: Seuil, 1992.
- Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, trans. S. Emanuel, 1996, PDF. (English)
- Regulile artei. Geneza şi structura câmpului literar, trans. Bogdan Ghiu and Taoder Saulea, Bucharest: Univers, 1998; 2nd ed., trans. Laura Albulescu and Bogdan Ghiu, intro. Mircea Martin, Bucharest: Art, 2007; new ed., 2012. Excerpts. (Romanian)
- editor, La misère du monde, Paris: Seuil, 1993; 2007.
- The Field of Cultural Production. Essays on Art and Literature, ed. Randall Johnson, 1993, Log. (English)
- with Hans Haacke, Libre-Échange, 1994.
- Free Exchange, Polity Press with Blackwell, 1995, 144 pp, Log. (English)
- Raisons pratiques. Sur la théorie de l'action, Paris: Seuil, 1994.
- Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, Polity, 1998; Stanford University Press, 1998, PDF. (English)
- Méditations pascaliennes. Éléments pur une philosophie négative, Paris: Seuil, 1997, ARG.
- Pascalian Meditations, trans. Richard Nice, 2000. (English)
- Meditații pascaliene, trans. Mădălina Ghiu and Bogdan Ghiu, Bucharest: Meridiane, 2001. (Romanian)
- Contre-feux. Propos pour servir à la résistance contre l'invasion néo-libérale, Liber-Raisons d'Agir, 1998.
- La domination masculine, Paris: Seuil, 1998.
- Les structures sociales de l'economie, Paris: Seuil, 2000.
- Science de la science et réflexivité, Paris: Raisons d’agir, 2001.
- Interventions 1961-2001: sciences sociales et action politique, eds. Franck Poupeau and Thierry Discepolo, Marseille: Agone, 2002.
- Pensamiento y acción, trans. Octavio Kulesz, Buenos Aires: Libros del Zorzal, 2002, PDF. (Spanish)
- Le Bal des célibataires: crise de la société paysanne en Béarn, Paris: Seuil, 2002.
- Esquisse pour une auto-analyse, Paris: Raisons d’agir, 2004.
- Sur l'État: Cours au Collège de France (1989-1992), Paris: Raisons d'Agir/Seuil, 2012.
- On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992, eds. Patrick Champagne, Remi Lenoir, Franck Poupeau and Marie-Christine Riviere, trans. David Fernbach, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014, PDF. (English)
- Sur Manet: Une révolution symbolique, Paris: Seuil/Raisons d'agir, 2013.
Book chapters, papers, articles
- with Marie-Claire Bourdieu, "Le paysan et la photographie", Revue française de sociologie 6, 1965, pp 164-174, PDF.
- "L'économie des biens symboliques", in Bourdieu, Raisons pratiques, Paris: Seuil, 1994.
- "The Economy of Symbolic Goods", ch 5 in Bourdieu, Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, Stanford University Press, 1998, pp 92-126, PDF. (English)
Bibliographies
Printed
- Yvette Delsaut, Marie-Christine Rivière, Bibliographie des travaux de Pierre Bourdieu, Pantin: Le Temps des Cerises, 2002, PDF.
Online
- Sélection bibliographique, 1993-2000, compiled by Bibliothèque nationale de France, Apr 2012. (French)
- HyperBordieu (French),(German)
- Wikipedia-FR (French)
Literature
Monographs
- Renato Ortiz (ed.), Bourdieu P. Sociologia, São Paulo: Ática, 1983, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Richard Jenkins, Pierre Bourdieu, London and New York: Routledge, 1992, IA ;revised edition 2002; 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007. (English)
- Patrice Bonnewitz, Premières leçons sur La sociologie de Pierre Bourdieu, Paris: PUF, 1998; 2nd ed., 2002, PDF.
- Primeiras lições sobre a sociologia de Pierre Bourdieu, Petrópolis: Vozes; 2003. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Derek Robbins (ed.), Pierre Bourdieu, 4 vols., Sage, 2000, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, ARG. (English)
- Pierre Mounier, Pierre Bourdieu, une introduction, Agora, 2001, PDF.
- Christiane Chauviré, Olivier Fontaine, Le vocabulaire de Bourdieu, Paris: Ellipses, 2003, PDF, IA, ARG.
- Michael Grenfell, Cheryl Hardy, Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts, Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007. (English)
- Terry Lovell, (Mis)recognition, Social Inequality and Social Justice: Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu, 2007. (English)
- Terry Rey, Bourdieu on Religion. Imposing Faith and Legitimacy, London and New York: Routledge, 2007; 2014, IA. (English)
- Gad Yair, Pierre Bourdieu: the Last Musketeer of the French Revolution, 2009. (English)
- John F. Myles, Bourdieu, Language and the Media, 2010. (English)
- Philip S. Gorski (ed.), Bourdieu and Historical Analysis, 2013. (English)
- Laura Albulescu, Sfinxul. Pierre Bourdieu şi literatura, intro. Mircea Martin, Bucharest: Art, 2014. Excerpts. (Romanian)
- Mathieu Hilgers, Eric Mangez (eds.), Bourdieu's Theory of Social Fields. Concepts and applications, PDF, Routledge, 2015, ARG. (English)
Journal issues
- Critique 579-580: "Pierre Bourdieu", Paris: Minuit, 1995. [4]
Papers
- Juan José Martínez-Sierra, "Using Bourdieu to Approach the Concept of Television as an Instrument of Social Reproduction in the U.S. The Paradox of The Simpsons", AS/SA 8:18 (2006), pp 17-27. (English)
Documentary film
- La sociologie est un sport de combat, documentary, dir. Pierre Charles, 146 min, 2001.