Bourdieu's politics
Subtitle: problems and possibilities
By: Jeremy F. Lane.
Series: Routledge advances in sociology -- 22.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780415363204
Subjects: Bourdieu, Pierre, -- 1930-2002 -- Political and social views; Political science -- Philosophy; Social sciences -- Philosophy; Neoliberalism
Description: "This new study presents the first sustained critical analysis of the political implications of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. Through a close reading of the political speeches and pronouncements of his later years, Jeremy F. Lane provides a detailed exposition both of Bourdieu's critique of neo-liberalism and of his own political position. Bourdieu's theory of politics is also brought into critical dialogue with the work of a range of other commentators of a broadly Marxist or post-Marxist orientation who have also intervened in such debates - theorists such as Stuart Hall, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Ranciere." "The first sustained analysis of Bourdieu's politics will seek to assess the validity of his claims as to the distinctiveness and superiority of his own field theory as a tool of political analysis. It will be of great use to students and researchers in sociology, social theory, cultural studies, French studies and political science."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Neo-liberalism as 'imposition' and 'invasion'?; title: The poetics and politics of practice; title: From practical sense to performative politics; title: Field theory and political analysis; title: Gender politics and the return of symbolic domination; title: Aesthetics, politics and the market; title: Universalism and the elusive public sphere.