Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieuwas a sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and renowned public intellectual...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth1 August 1930
CountryFrance
pay talent clarity
Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.
mind world metaphor
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
reality world example
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.
thinking way sociology
The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.
I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.
thinking television population
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
art mean self
I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.
art struggle understanding
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.