Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:40:28 -0400
Subject: Wacquant on boxing


Just stumbled across an article:

Franck, Elisabeth.  "The Pugilistic Professor", LINGUA FRANCA, July/Aug. 
2001, pp. 19-20.

This is a new item about Loic Wacquant's forthcoming book on boxing, based 
on his own participation in this "disport."  When intellectuals begin to 
find violence entertaining, I always sniff fascism in the works, but 
purportedly Lacquant's account does not romanticize its subject.  Allegedly 
his work is praised by Bourdieu.  However interesting this may be as an 
object of social science, I always have to wonder, what's in it for the 
people who participate in it?  What do you think Lacquant is all about?

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