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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 00:05:23 +1000
From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Fw: Pierre Bourdieu - SOCIOLOGY IS A MARTIAL ART



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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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