Description
Book SynopsisThis book is an important and timely contribution to the debate concerning the relation between Heideggera s philosophy and his political affiliations to Nazism. But it is more than that: it is also a study, by the leading sociologist in France today, of some of the institutional mechanisms involved in the production of philosophical discourse.
Trade Review"Probably the best case-study in the sociology of philosophy there has ever been."
Radical Philosophy "Bourdieu's book is the single most illuminating contribution to an understanding of the social and political meaning of Heidegger's work. It is extremely stimulating in its methodology, which is an outstanding model of a sociological approach to philosophy, and in the light it casts on the current debate over Heidegger and Nazism. Bourdieu's book stands apart from the other books and articles on the political implications of Heidegger's philosophy by virtue of the originality, clarity, and soundness of its point of view." Jean-Joseph Gouz, Brown University
Table of ContentsPreface.
Introduction: Skewed thinking.
1. Pure philosophy and the Zeitgeist. .
2. The philosophical field and the space of possibilities.
3. A 'conservative revolution' in philosophy.
4. Censorship and the imposition of form.
5. Internal readings and the respect of form.
6. Self-interpretation and the evolution of the system.
Notes.
Index.
