"I would simply ask why so many critics,……" — Pierre Bourdieu
"I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence."
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Pierre Bourdieu
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15 Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu
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Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and…
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The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
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Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social…
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Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier
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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
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Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
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You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural…
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Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of…
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Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.
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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
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Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.
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The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
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