Top of the Class
Geoffrey Hawthorn, 8 May 1997
The State Nobility
by Pierre Bourdieu, translated by Lauretta Clough.
Polity, 475 pp., £45, November 1996,0 7456 0824 8 Show More
by Pierre Bourdieu, translated by Lauretta Clough.
Polity, 475 pp., £45, November 1996,
“... No theorist of what only a theorist would dare to call ‘modern society’ commands more attention in the anglophone world; no one is closer to the centre of the local ‘field of power’, as he would describe it, that is Parisian intellectual life. Pierre Bourdieu’s first book, his 1958 ethnography of the Kabyle of Algeria, was, it’s true, social anthropology done in the British manner: it talked of the social functions of ‘solidarity ... ”