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Article: Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory: Critical Investigations.(Review) (book reviews)
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- Social Forces
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- September 1, 1999
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By Bridget Fowler. Sage Publications, 1997. 200 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $23.95.
Reviewer. RODNEY BENSON, University of California, Berkeley
There have been "two moments" of Pierre Bourdieu in the Anglo-American world, writes Bridget Fowler in Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory: one beginning with the English translation of Reproduction in 1977 and the other commencing with the 1984 translation of Distinction. Fowler's interest is in this second "cultural" moment, inside of which she subsumes the collected essays in The Field of Cultural Production (1993) and The Rules of Art (1996). In so doing, she misses the fact that these and other works of the ...