This volume brings together Bourdieua s highly original writings on language and on the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language…

Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era…

Pierre Bourdieu is a major thinker in education. This volume offers an account of Bourdieu’s educational thought. It is divided into: a biography; a critical exposition of Bourdieu’s work; the…

Derek Robbins provides the first complete assessment of the sociological achievements of one of the key European sociologists of the 20th century. Bourdieu has made decisive contributions to theory, method…

Martin Heidegger’s alliance with the Nazis and the specific relation between this alliance and his philosophical thought have been the topic of recent debate. Written prior to this debate, this…

Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it…

The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers – the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits – may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal…

* Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the late twentieth century. * This important new volume brings together his key writings on Algeria, where…