{"product_id":"pierre-bourdieu-and-democratic-politics-9780745634883","title":"Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Many were surprised during the 1990s by Pierre Bourdieu’s increasingly open and direct engagement in democratic politics. The present collection helps to explain the intellectual roots of this engagement – which lie deep in Bourdieu’s theory – as well as its significance. Both Bourdieu’s contributions to political understanding and this book’s contributions to understanding Bourdieu are of enduring value.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Calhoun, \u003ci\u003eSocial Science Research Council\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Can Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology contribute anything distinctive to our understanding of democratic politics? This scintillating volume answers with a resounding ‘yes,’ as the contributors tease out the as-yet-unappreciated political implications of the French sociologist’s signature concepts.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Fraser, \u003ci\u003eNew School for Social Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Symbolic Power and Democratic Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Pointers on Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Loïc Wacquant).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 From the King's House to the Reason of State: A Model of the Genesis of the Bureaucratic Field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Pierre Bourdieu).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Mystery of Ministry: From Particular Wills to the General Will.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Pierre Bourdieu).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Scholarship with Commitment: On the Political Engagements of Pierre Bourdieu.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Franck Popupeau and Thierry Discepolo).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Ancien Régime Ballots: A Double Historicization of Electoral Practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Olivier Christin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Making the People Speak: On the Social Uses of and Reactions to Opinion Polls.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Patrick Champagne).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Symbolic Power in the Rule of the \"State Nobility\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Loïc Wacquant).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Making and Breaking of the Czechoslovak Political Field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Gil Eyal).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Cunning of Imperialist Reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKey Writings of Pierre Bourdieu on Democratic Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767975608663,"sku":"9780745634883","price":21.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745634883.jpg?v=1758715751","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pierre-bourdieu-and-democratic-politics-9780745634883","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}