« Je pense que les peuples ont pris conscience du fait qu’ils avaient des intérêts communs et qu’il y avait des intérêts planétaires qui sont liés à l’existence de la terre, des intérêts que l’on pourrait appeler cosmologiques, dans la mesure où ils concernent le monde dans son ensemble ».
Pierre Bourdieu (1992)


mardi 22 novembre 2011

Derek Robbins, French Post-War Social Theory. International Knowledge Transfer

Derek Robbins 
French Post-War Social 
Theory International Knowledge Transfer 
SAGE Publications
2011


Présentation de l'éditeur
Detailed, timely and original this book explores the trans-cultural transmission of social theory. Derek Robbins presents us with a chronological commentary on the intellectual production of five French social thinkers (Aron, Althusser, Foucault, Lyotard, Bourdieu) and on the English reception of their texts.
The book:
• Sets up a Bourdieusian investigation of the habitus of the five thinkers and, comparatively, of the national sub-fields of intellectual discourse.
• Enables an inter-active generation of enquiry based on the primacy of individual experience
• Challenges the social sciences to abandon their grand narratives and to advance the cause of social democratic inclusion
• Reconciles the legacies of the work of Bourdieu and Lyotard in order to advance practically a socio-analytic recognition of dissensus or différence.
By representing modern classics of French social thought in socio-political context, this in-depth study encourages all social researchers to reflect on their use of social theories in their practice.
Introduction
Derek Robbin's companion website to French Post-War Social Theory 

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