Risposte: per un'antropologia riflessiva

by Pierre Bourdieu

Gunumuz sosyal bilim dunyasina damgasini vurmus isimlerden biridir Pierre Bourdieu. Inceledigi alanlar acisindan buyuk bir cesitlilik gosteren eserleri, dunyanin dort bir yaninda cesitli disiplinlerden arastirmacilari etkiledi, etkiliyor.Bourdieu’nun dunyasina genel bir bakis sunan bu kitap uc bolumden Ilk bolumu olusturan giris yazisinda Wacquant, Bourdieu’nun butun eserleri uzerine derli toplu, ama son derece derinlikli bir degerlendirme yapiyor. Ikinci bolumde, Wacquant’la yaptigi gorusmelerde Bourdieu, sosyolog ve antropolog olarak entelektuel seruveninin ideta bir muhasebesini yapiyor. Calismalarini, kullandigi temel kavramlari -yapi, alan, strateji, habitus, kulturel sermaye, cikar, illusio, simgesel iktidar- olabildigince yalin ve anlasilir bir dille acikliyor. Eserlerinin yanlis anlasilmasinin nedenlerine isaret ederek kendisine yoneltilen elestirilere cevap verirken, hem sosyal bilimler alaninin genel bir manzarasini cizmis oluyor, hem de bu alanda kendi ozgun

Genres: Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology

251 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Bourdieu 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).

Reviews

[Göker Makaskıran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kitapta yer alan, Loïc Wacquant'ın Bourdieu sosyoloji/antropolojisini kapsamlı bir şekilde değerlendirdiği sunuş metni konu üzerine yazılmış en iyi yazı olabilir. Bourdieu sosyolojisine yabancı olan bir kimse için kitabın söyleşi ve seminer kısımları zorlayıcı olacaktır (başlangıç kitabı olarak David Swartz'ın "Kültür ve İktidar" çalışmasını tavsiye edebilirim). Benim için sosyoloji ve antropoloji alanında okunması gereken temel kitaplardan biri.

[Uğur · Rating 5 out of 5]

First of all, let me start by commenting on the "offering an overview" part of the book's description. The book is not a general summary, assessment of Bourdieu's world of thought, his point of view in the books he wrote. With this book, you cannot "briefly" understand Bourdieu's thought. What is covered in this book is to know the concepts and definitions that need to be known on the way to understand and make sense of Bourdieu's world of thought. That is why I can say that most of the erroneous descriptions used about Bourdieu are due to the misinterpretation of this book.

Bourdieu's central point is the concept of thoughtfulness. All his activity starts from this point. A philosophy based on thoughtfulness would, of course, acquire a dynamic structure and would not have a definable point. Since it has a memorizing philosophy with its majority, it contains expressions that will disturb its misunderstood person a lot. Also, Bourdieu says:;
"In fact, thoughtfulness questions the sacred meaning of individuality, the charismatic representations of intellectuals about themselves, who have always considered themselves free from any kind of social determination. Thoughtfulness is what frees us from such illusions by making us discover the social in the individual, the non-personal hidden under the private, the universal buried in the deepest of the private.''

In addition, since it is a work that they created together with Wacquant regarding the book content, it also contains a very comprehensive Wacquant analysis. Wacquant, who brought very qualified analyses on Bourdieu's philosophical sociology, was lucky for Bourdieu, unlike many philosophers who were not understood in his own period and misunderstood in subsequent periods with his interviews. Foucault writes a book, it is incomprehensible, and then he writes a new book in the name of explaining that book. Nietzsche is already incomprehensible, he is just a madman. While Herodotus, Kierkegaard, Marx and many other obscure names experienced the tragedy of this situation with all their misfortunes, I can say that Bourdieu saved himself in this regard with this work. But let me repeat, this work is not a summary of Bourdieu's sociology and philosophy*.

In particular, it was very appropriate to choose a way of expression that moves through concepts and terms. It will be very useful for the person who will start Bourdieu research through them to have his own original and free thinking rather than understanding Bourdieu, which is what understanding Bourdieu means. I wish you to continue thinking thoughtfully.