Sketch for a Self-analysis

Download or read book Sketch for a Self-analysis written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's lifelong preoccupation with reflexivity and the application of his theories to his own life and intellectual trajectory. Along the way if offers insights into the most important French intellectuals of the time such as Foucault, Sartre, Aron, Althusser, and de Beauvoir, as well as Bourdieu's own formative experiences at boarding school and his moral outrage at the colonial war in Algeria.