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PIERRE BOURDIEU: Critical Sociology and Social History

Hobsbawm, Eric

New Left review, 2016-09 (101), p.1 [Periódico revisado por pares]

London: New Left Review Ltd

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  • Título:
    PIERRE BOURDIEU: Critical Sociology and Social History
  • Autor: Hobsbawm, Eric
  • Assuntos: Ambition ; Appreciation ; Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002) ; Conventions ; Economists ; Gestures ; Historians ; Philosophy ; Social history ; Social norms ; Social problems ; Sociology
  • É parte de: New Left review, 2016-09 (101), p.1
  • Descrição: A warm but critical appreciation of Bourdieu’s corpus, focusing on his engagement with the work of historians and asking what the latter can draw from his ambitious social theorizing and the conceptual tool-box it supplies. Let me start with a little story about intellectual exchange, which Bourdieu would have liked. As we know, Wittgenstein entirely changed the orientation of his philosophy after 1929, principally as a result of the criticisms of the Italian economist Piero Sraffa, with whom he liked to walk and talk at Trinity College, Cambridge. One day, when Wittgenstein was putting forth the argument that a proposition and what it describes must have the same 'logical multiplicity', Sraffa replied with a Neapolitan gesture of scepticism or contempt, brushing his fingertips up and outward from his chin: 'What is the logical form of this?' Clearly, these conversations were of the highest importance for Wittgenstein, who said he owed to Sraffa an 'anthropological method' of tackling philosophical problems; in other words, the realization that social rules and conventions contribute to the sense of our words and gestures.
  • Editor: London: New Left Review Ltd
  • Idioma: Inglês

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