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Article: Pierre Bourdieu, Sketch for a Self-Analysis.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of Sociology
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- March 22, 2009
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Pierre Bourdieu, Sketch for a Self-Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, 128 pp. $US 20.00 paper (978-0-226-06751-3), $US 55.00 hardcover (978-0-226-06747-6)
Pierre Bourdieu's Sketch for a Self-Analysis can be recommended equally to devotees and critics. The short text revisits many of Bourdieu's classic themes--including symbolic violence, the "scholastic fallacy," and habitus, this time in the context of his personal experiences and development.
Is this an autobiography? The heavily freighted denial which opens the text rides very low in the water. "I do not intend to indulge in the genre of autobiography," he writes, "which I have ...