Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 00:05:23 +1000 From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> Subject: Fw: Pierre Bourdieu - SOCIOLOGY IS A MARTIAL ART ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Reger, Johns. C. Smith Uni" <MReger1301-AT-aol.com> To: <H-IDEAS-AT-H-NET.MSU.EDU> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:12 PM Subject: ANN: Pierre Bourdieu - SOCIOLOGY IS A MARTIAL ART > First Run / Icarus Films is pleased to announce the release of a new > documentary about the world famous, highly influential sociologist Pierre > Bourdieu. > > Pierre Bourdieu > SOCIOLOGY IS A MARTIAL ART > (LA SOCIOLOGIE EST UN SPORT DE COMBAT) > Directed by Pierre Carles > Produced by Annie Gonzalez and Veronique Fregosi > > "I often say sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. > Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use > if for unfair attacks." Pierre Bourdieu > > Pierre's Bourdieu's forty books and countless articles represent probably > the most brilliant and fruitful renovation and application of social > science in our era. The highly influential, at times controversial > intellectual - a longtime Professor of Sociology at the College de France - > passed away in January 2002. > > A "committed" thinker in the vein of Foucault, his work is concerned with > elucidating the processes of symbolic violence and cultural domination in > various areas of social life. In the late nineties he became something of a > celebrity scholar, one of the world's most important academics actively > associated with the anti-globalization movement. > > SOCIOLOGY IS A MARTIAL ART, a new documentary about Bourdieu's life, became > an unexpected hit in France just prior to his death. Filmed over three > years, director Pierre Carles' camera follows Bourdieu as he lectures, > attends political rallies, travels, meets with his students, staff, and > research team in Paris, and includes Bourdieu having a conversation with > G?ter Grass. > > The film's very title stresses the degree of Bourdieu's political > engagement. He took on the mantle of Emile Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre in > French public life, slugging it out with politicians because he considered > those lucky enough to have spent their lives studying the social world > could not be indifferent to the struggle for justice. > > > Livia Alexander > First Run / Icarus Films > 32 Court Street, 21st Floor > Brooklyn, NY 11201 > Tel: 1-718-488-8900 > Fax: 1-718-488-8642 > Web: http://www.frif.com > email: livia-AT-frif.com
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