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Bourdieu and Culture BOURDIEU AND CULTURE Derek Robbins SAGE Publications London · Thousand Oaks · New Delhi © Derek Robbins 2000 First published 2000 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means ,electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousands Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash -1 New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7619 6043 0 ISBN 0 7619 6044 9 (pbk) Library of Congress catalog card number available Typeset by Dorwyn Ltd, Rowlands Castle, Hampshire Printed in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead For my wife, Diana, and our sons, Oliver and Felix. Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi Part I The Career Chapter 1 An insider/outsider Frenchman 1 Part Π The Concepts Chapter 2 The socio-genesis of the thinking instruments 25 Chapter 3 Production, reception and reproduction 42 Part III The Case Studies Chapter 4 Flaubert and the social ambivalence of literary invention 67 Chapter 5 Courrèges, the fashion system and anti-semiology 80 Chapter 6 Manet, the Musée d'Orsay, and the installation of art 93 Part IV The Criticisms Chapter 7 Evaluating fragmented responses 105 Chapter 8 Meta-criticism: charting interminable territory 121 Conclusion: Commending the Bourdieu paradigm: the sociologist as conceptual artist 137 Bibliography 141 Index 153 Acknowledgements This book has been long delayed. This is not the place to describe the problems which arose with another publisher, but I am all the more grate- ful to Sage for moving so quickly to offer a contract for producing a revised text. In particular, I should like to thank Chris Rojek for his encourage- ment and support and I hope this publication will add to the reputation of Sage's list in relation to theory, culture and society in general and to its honourable record in advancing discussion of the work of Bourdieu by the publication of his texts and of constructive critical analysis such as that offered by Bridget Fowler in Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory. Critical Investigations (1997). Much of the research for this book has been undertaken 'on the ground' in Paris, but, in London, I am indebted to the librarians of the University of East London for their diligent pursuit of my inter-library loan requests. The services of the British Library have, as always, been essential. Occa- sional visits to Paris have been funded from the allocation to UEL's Sociol- ogy unit of assessment following the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise. In Paris, I am grateful to the librarians in the Sorbonne and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, and, in relation to my chapter on Manet, I benefited particularly from the help of Jacques Thuillier of the Collège de France and of the administration of the Musée d'Orsay. I have valued the intellectual support which has been provided by the team of researchers in the Centre de Sociologie de l'Education et de la Culture in the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, now under the direction of Rémi Lenoir, and I have also appre- ciated the accommodation facilities which have been available through the good offices of Jean-Michel Ageron of the Paris American Academy. Many of the thoughts in this book were tentatively articulated in sessions with students at UEL and I acknowledge the influence of discussions with students who have followed the third year Anthropology unit on Bourdieu that I have taught since 1995. Paramount, of course, is my indebtedness to Pierre Bourdieu himself and to staff associated with his work at the Collège de France - notably Marie-Christine Rivière, Rosine Christin and Gabrielle Balazs. As a team, they have been unreservedly open in their willingness to produce documents, papers, references or contacts in spite of the awesome workload that falls to a small workforce. As for Pierre Bourdieu himself, I can only say that this work is offered with respect and deference. I have had the good fortune in my career to have had contact with three intellectuals who could be said to be 'charismatic' - Leavis, Williams and Bourdieu. Encounters with the first two were disap-
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