| Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics: The Mystery of Ministry Contributor(s): Wacquant, Loïc (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0745634885 ISBN-13: 9780745634883 Publisher: Polity Press OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2005 Annotation: Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work was of profound significance for the way we think about democratic politics. This important volume presents and develops Bourdieu's distinctive contribution to the rethinking of democratic politics by explaining his core concept of the political field, his historical model of the emergence of the modern bureaucratic state and his influential analysis of the practices and institutions involved in the paradoxical phenomenon of political representation.This volume includes two key texts by Pierre Bourdieu on the nature of the political field and political representation, and a highly influential text by Bourdieu and Wacquant on the dangers of American cultural imperialism in the intellectual world. The fruitfulness of Bourdieu's approach to politics is demonstrated in a series of integrated studies of voting, public opinion polls, parties, and state-building, as well as by careful analyses of Bourdieu's own political engagements and his treatment of the place of reason and recognition in political life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Dewey: 320.01 |
| LCCN: JC423 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.46" W x 9.02" (0.76 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work is of profound significance for rethinking democracy. This original volume presents and develops Bourdieu's distinctive contribution to the theory and practice of democratic politics. It explicates and illustrates his core concepts of political field and field of power, his historical model of the bureaucratic state, and his influential analyses of the practices and institutions involved in the paradoxical phenomenon of political representation - starting with the enigma of delegation, or what he called the "mystery of ministry." The fruitfulness of Bourdieu's approach is demonstrated in a series of integrated studies of voting, public opinion polls, party dynamics, class rule, and state-building, as well as by careful analyses of Bourdieu's own civic engagements and his theoretical treatment of the politics of reason and recognition in contemporary society. Charting the connections between Bourdieu's political views, the main nodes of his sociology of democratic representation, and the implications of this sociology for progressive civic thought and action, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across the gamut of disciplines as well as to citizens concerned with renewing struggles for social justice. |