I thought of Bourdieu as a good guy, although I didn't want to agree with
him about quite a few things. "Honest" is quite right in any case. I hadn't
thought about what his work meant in terms of poetics; perhaps doing so
would focus my sense of disagreement somewhat.
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From: "Pierre Joris" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 4:24 PM
Subject: Bourdieu
> I just heard the the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu died last night
from
> cancer at 71. Although much of the later sociology work could seem
> problematic from a poetics point-of-view {& years ago the French poet
Michel
> Deguy wrote a scathing criticism of Bourdieu's famous "La Distinction"),
his
> heart was in the right place, with his recent acticity against globalism,
> including the founding of the radical publishing house, only the tip of
the
> iceberg of an honest activist intellectual's career. My own preference
goes
> towards his earliest work, socio-anthropological work on Maghrebian Berber
> societies. -- Pierre
>
> [apologies for crossposting]
>
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