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O Desencantamento do Mundo
Fruto das investigações iniciais na Argélia, no início de sua carreira. Com observação empírica e muitos dados estatísticos, Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) elabora uma visão muito crítica da economia e do desenvolvimento e mostra como, na busca pelo progresso econômico, o modo de vida tradicional dos povos se desagregava em conflito com as novas disposições capitalistas, destruindo o mito de um Homo economicus universal e racional muito defendido até hoje por economistas de várias vertentes. O livro emite, ainda, um alerta contundente dos estragos social, econômico e cultural causados pelas estruturas externas de dominação impostas violentamente aos modos de vida de vida das populações invadidas. Esta nova edição da Perspectiva foi não apenas revista como ampliada. Além da apresentação de Elisa Klüger, pesquisadora do Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (Cebrap), que contextualiza a obra e seu autor, traz outros dois textos de Bourdieu sobre os “O Senso de Honra” e “A Casa Cabila ou o Mundo Invertido”.
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Published January 1, 2019
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Pierre Bourdieu
297 books1,522 followersBourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location, and symbolic violence to reveal the dynamics of power relations in social life. His work emphasized the role of practice and embodiment or forms in social dynamics and worldview construction, often in opposition to universalized Western philosophical traditions. He built upon the theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Georges Canguilhem, Karl Marx, Gaston Bachelard, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Erwin Panofsky, and Marcel Mauss. A notable influence on Bourdieu was Blaise Pascal, after whom Bourdieu titled his Pascalian Meditations.
Bourdieu rejected the idea of the intellectual "prophet", or the "total intellectual", as embodied by Sartre. His best known book is Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, in which he argues that judgments of taste are related to social position. His argument is put forward by an original combination of social theory and data from surveys, photographs and interviews, in an attempt to reconcile difficulties such as how to understand the subject within objective structures. In the process, he tried to reconcile the influences of both external social structures and subjective experience on the individual (see structure and agency).
Bourdieu rejected the idea of the intellectual "prophet", or the "total intellectual", as embodied by Sartre. His best known book is Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, in which he argues that judgments of taste are related to social position. His argument is put forward by an original combination of social theory and data from surveys, photographs and interviews, in an attempt to reconcile difficulties such as how to understand the subject within objective structures. In the process, he tried to reconcile the influences of both external social structures and subjective experience on the individual (see structure and agency).
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