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Article: Nicholas Brown and Imre Szema, Eds. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture.(Book Review)
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- International Social Science Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield, 2000. xii + 253 pages.
One of the most exciting aspects of intellectual history is the transmission of ideas from one country to another. Whether it is a case of Nietzsche obsessively re-reading Emerson, of French symbolist poets reworking the poetic principles of Poe, or of Americans interpreting, reinterpreting and misinterpreting the work of thinkers such as Herbert Spencer or Michel Foucault, the ongoing trans-Atlantic dialogue between Europe and America has proven to be a perennially rich area of study.
As the field of Atlantic studies develops and matures, collections such as this one will become increasingly ...