Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 04:11:28 -0400
From: "Florent Latrive" <latrive-AT-liberation.fr>
Subject: Re: "Le cas Bourdieu" - Elements on the current controversy on


The newspaper you have quoted, "L'evenement du Jeudi", is know to be
leftist... But it's very rare in the newspapers in France to find
stories "pro Bourdieu". I don't know the opinion of the other French
people on this list about what they found in the newspapers regarding
the polemics, but I found everything very hard against him...


Florent Latrive (journalist for Liberation, a newspaper in Paris)






At 12:50 12/09/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thanks Olivier for the excerpts from Le Monde.
>
>I'm afraid I have missed some of the recent conversation on the list on
>these matters, so those of you who are following the fracas might be aware
>of this reference already.  I came across a journal called "L'evenement du
>jeudi" which in its 27 Aug-2 Sep edition purports to cover the debate.  It
>carries an "interview" with J Verdes-Leroux, (an extremely underwhelming
>mutual gratification between an interviewer and interviewee who excite one
>another into a frenzy of sorts), as well as other stuff which seemed to
>amount to a smear campaign against Bourdieu -- different perspectives about
>Bourdieu were covered there, perspectives which at time appear a bit
>contradictory (e.g. that his sociology is essentially a sham, or that his
>sociology is OK but does not justify his political action, or that
>regardless of his sociology, the long-dead intellectual heros of his time
>didn't really like him...) but have one thing in common, namely they
>criticise Bourdieu.  Some of these criticisms verge on the downright stupid
>(e.g. Jacques Attali's -- the guy must be hallucinating or something).
>
>Incidentally, does anybody know who owns that journal or what its political
>identification/affiliation is?  I know very little about the French media.
>
>Cheers,
>A.
>
>
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