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Book SynopsisElaborating on a theory of the cultural field, this book situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption.
Trade ReviewSince the early 1970s, French sociologist Bourdieu has become a major theoretical voice in the critical study of cultural practices. This volume brings together Bourdieu's major essays on art, literature, and culture, published between 1968 and 1987. It includes articles appearing in English for the first time, others previously published in book and journals but not always readily accessible, and a series of three lectures presented as the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton U. in 1986, here published for the first time in any language. Booknews
Table of ContentsPreface Editor's Introduction: Pierre Bourdieu on Art, Literature and Culture Part I. The Field of Cultural Production 1. The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed 2. The Production of Belief: Contribution to an Economy of Symbolic Goods 3. The Market of Symbolic Goods Part II. Flaubert and the French Literary Field 4. Is the Structure of Sentimental Education an Instance of Social Self-analysis? 5. Field of Power, Literary Field and Habitus 6. Principles for a Sociology of Cultural Works 7. Flaubert's Point of View Part III. The Pure Gaze: Essays on Art 8. Outline of a Sociological Theory of Art Perception 9. Manet and the Institutionalization of Anomie 10. The Historical Genesis of a Pure Aesthetic Notes Selected Bibliography Index
