Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher and champion of the anti-globalisation movement, whose work spanned a broad range of subjects from ethnography to art, literature, education, language, cultural tastes, and television [1]. Bourdieu’s most significant work on cultural production is available in two books: The Field of Cultural Production (1993) and The Rules of Art (1996). Bourdieu builds his theory of cultural production using his own characteristic theoretical vocabulary of habitus, capital and field.
Contents
Literature
Books by Pierre Bourdieu
- Sociologie de l'Algérie, 1958 (rev. edition 1961)
- The Algerians, Trans. by Allan Ross, Beacon Press, 1962
- Un art moyen. Essais sur les usages sociaux de la photographie, 1965
- Photography: A Middle-brow Art, translated by Shaun Whiteside, 1990
- Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique, précéde de trois études d'ethnologie kabyle, Geneva: Libraire Droz, 1972
- Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, translated by Richard Nice, 1977
- La distinction. Critique sociale du jugement, 1979
- Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, translated by Richard Nice, 1984
- Travaux et projets, 1980.
- Homo academicus, Editions de Minuit, 1984 (French)
- Homo Academicus, Stanford University Press, 1988 (English)
- The Field of Cultural Production. Essays on Art and Literature, 1993
- with Hans Haacke, Free Exchange, 1994/1995
- Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, 1995, 1996
- On Television, 1996/1998
- Méditations pascaliennes. Éléments pur une philosophie négative, 1997
- Pascalian Meditations, translated by Richard Nice, 2000
- Contre-feux, Editions Liber-Raisons d'Agir, 1998
- Acts of Resistance. Against the New Myths of our Time, Translated by Richard Nice, Polity Press and The New Press, 1998
- Articles on Bourdieu
- 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, vol. 8, n. 18, 2006: 17-27.
- Bibliography
- on French Wikipedia
- Sélection bibliographique, 1993-2000, compiled by Bibliothèque nationale de France, April 2012
Books on Pierre Bourdieu
- Patrice Bonnewitz, Premières leçons sur La sociologie de Pierre Bourdieu, Paris: PUF, 1998; 2nd edition, 2002. (in French)
- Pierre Mounier, Pierre Bourdieu, une introduction, Agora, 2001. (in French)
- Gad Yair, Pierre Bourdieu: the Last Musketeer of the French Revolution, 2009. (in English)
- John F. Myles, Bourdieu, Language and the Media, 2010. (in English)
- Philip S. Gorski (ed.), Bourdieu and Historical Analysis, 2013. (in English)
Film about Bourdieu
- La sociologie est un sport de combat, documentary, dir. Pierre Charles, 146 min, 2001.
