Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu

by Michael Burawoy

Book Overview

In Symbolic Violence Michael Burawoy brings Pierre Bourdieu into an extended debate with Marxism--a tradition Bourdieu ostensibly avoided. While Bourdieu's expansive body of work stands as a critique of Marx's inadequate account of cultural domination, Burawoy shows how Bourdieu's eschewal and rejection of Marxism led him to miss out on a number of productive theoretical engagements. In eleven "conversations," Burawoy outlines the intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478006471
• ISBN13: 9781478006473
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"