Practising Theory: Pierre Bourdieu and the Field of Cultural Production
Edited by Jeff Browitt and Brian Nelson
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ISBN: 0-87413-919-8
Published in 2005
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The essays in this collection in honor of Pierre Bourdieu gather loosely under the rubric of "cultural production" and around three central themes: the philosophy of art and symbolic forms, the function of critical intellectuals, and the concept of habitus. While recognizing the signal contribution of Bourdieu to sociological analyses of the functioning of the cultural field, each contribution nevertheless engages critically with aspects of the French thinker's work that have generated controversy. The essays include the juxtaposition of Gadamer and Bourdieu on the truth of art, the theory of symbolic forms in Cassirer and Bourdieu, Bourdieu's conception of the relationship between sociology and anthropology, habitus and the architectural imagination, the habitus of theatrical performance, the status and function of critical intellectuals, and the genesis of the autonomous literary field in Latin America. Jeff Browitt teaches in the Institute for International Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Brian Nelson is Professor of French Studies at Monash University, Melbourne.
