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Pascalian Meditations by Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice

English books downloading Pascalian Meditations by Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice  9780804733328 in English

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  • Pascalian Meditations
  • Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice
  • Page: 264
  • Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
  • ISBN: 9780804733328
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press

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English books downloading Pascalian Meditations by Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice 9780804733328 in English

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“This book will surely endure a a major classic of late twentieth-century social theory.”_—Philosophy in Review

“This latest book by France’s preeminent sociologist provides a compact presentation of his concerns, methods, and leading concepts. . . . The book will be an excellent introduction to Bourdieu’s fruitful thought for philosophers and social theorists.”—Ethics

A synthesis of forty years’ work by France’s leading sociologist, this book pushes the critique of scholarly reason to a new level. It is a brilliant example of Bourdieu’s unique ability to link sociological theory, historical information, and philosophical thought.
Pascalian Meditations makes explicit the presuppositions of a state of “scholasticism,” a certain leisure liberated from the urgencies of the world. Philosophers, unwilling to engage these presuppositions in their practice, have brought them into the order of discourse, not so much to analyze them as to legitimate them. This situation is the primary systematic, epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic error that Bourdieu subjects to methodological critique.
This critique of scholarly reason is carried out in the name of Pascal because he, too, pointed out the features of human existence that the scholastic outlook ignores: he was concerned with symbolic power; he refused the temptation of foundationalist thinking; he attended (without populist naïveté) to “ordinary people”; and he was determined to seek the raison d’être of seemingly illogical behavior rather than condemning or mocking it.
Through this critique, Bourdieu charts a negative philosophy that calls into question some of our most fundamental presuppositions, such as a “subject” who is free and self-aware. This philosophy, with its intellectual debt to such other “heretical” philosophers as Wittgenstein, Austin, Dewey, and Peirce, renews traditional questioning of the concepts of violence, power, time, history, the universal, and the purpose and direction of existence.

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