La culture contemporaine a connu une métamorphose et plus rien, semble-t-il, ne résiste à cette dénaturation, voire à cet effacement de sa valeur. La banalisation des arts et des lettres, le triomphe de la presse people et la frivolité des politiques sont, pour Mario Vargas Llos…
Pollution des rivières, embryons congelés, virus du sida, trou d'ozone, robots à capteurs... Comment comprendre ces "objets" étranges qui envahissent notre monde ? Relèvent-ils de la nature ou de la culture ? Jusqu'ici, les choses étaient simples : aux scientifiques la gestion d…
This is the first comprehensive description of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture and habitus. Within the wider intellectual context of Bourdieu's work, this book provides a systematic reading of his assessment of the role of `cultural capital' in the production and consumption…
"This is the first comprehensive description of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture and habitus. Within the wider intellectual context of Bourdieu's work, this book provides a systematic reading of his assessment of the role of 'cultural capital' in the production and consumptio…
This comprehensive and systematic study of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture and habitus examines the intellectual context of his work and provides an exacting and systematic reading of the development of his thinking on 'cultural capital'.
"Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic view of reflections on progress in modern China. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the discourses on progress shape Chinese understandings of modernity and its pitfalls. As this in-depth study shows, these disc…
"Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic view of reflections on progress in modern China. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the discourses on progress shape Chinese understandings of modernity and its pitfalls. As this in-depth study shows, these disc…
Grenfell aims to present Bourdieu's work as a practical example of intervention, and its consequences, in the social world. He shows what it meant to be an 'intellectual engagé', to develop a theory of practice and method that links academic thought to the world of everyman.
