From: "Tony Zollo" <antoniozollo-AT-ozemail.com.au> Subject: Re: Re:Even more Bourdieu Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:33:43 +1030 Great stuff, ANTONY. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Taylor Whiting" <antony.whiting-AT-student.adelaide.edu.au> To: <bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 7:01 AM Subject: Even more Bourdieu > Pierre Bourdieu, Leading French Thinker, Dies at 71 > > January 24, 2002 > > By REUTERS > > PARIS, Jan 24 -- One of France's leading intellectuals, > sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, has died, colleagues said on > Thursday. He was 71. > > The daily Le Monde said Bourdieu, in recent years a > champion of the anti-globalisation movement, had died of > cancer at the Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris on Wednesday. > > > Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, in a message of condolence, > called Bourdieu "a master of contemporary sociology and a > great figure in the intellectual life of our country." > > A trenchant critic of capitalist society, Bourdieu began > his academic career at Algiers University in 1958 when > Algerian rebels were fighting for independence from French > colonial rule. > > His main work, Distinction: A Social Critique of the > Judgement of Taste, published in 1984, remains one of the > defining studies of the relationships between consumer > behaviour and social class. > > He had held the post of Professor of Sociology at the > College de France, the country's most prestigious academic > institute, since 1981. > > Bourdieu, who trained as a philosopher and was also a noted > anthropologist, is widely regarded as having profoundly > reshaped sociological study since the 1960s. > > His writings ranged widely over culture, art, politics, > education, the media and literature and were accompanied by > political activity and support for working-class struggles > that made him an intellectual reference point for the left. > > > Bourdieu was born in Denguin in southwest France on August > 1, 1930. > > > > ********************************************************************** > Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > > ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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