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  • - Recognizing Society
    by Derek Robbins
    £119.49

    This book seeks to offer a chronological account of the development of Pierre Bourdieu's thinking. It is intended to guide readers towards and through the original texts and attempts to represent the French meaning of Bourdieu, hence the concentration on the French chronology.

  • - The origins and evolution of an intellectual social project
    by Derek Robbins
    £23.49

    Analysing the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, this book considers the historical development of competing philosophies of social science. It examines the relations between phenomenology, Gestalt psychology and empirical social science in the first half of the twentieth century and then explores the way in which Bourdieu responded to this legacy by advocating a form of reflexive social-scientific investigation, which would remain faithful to primary experience without disowning accumulated intellectualism. The book asks whether the Bourdieu 'paradigm' retains value beyond the French conditions of its production. It offers an analysis of the development of Bourdieu's thought and practice which constitutes an invitation to readers generally to reassess the value of the western tradition of the social function of the detached intellectual for mass democratic societies.

  • by Derek Robbins
    £53.99

    Part of the SAGE Swifts series, this book examines the changing and competing conceptualizations of the political and the social in the Western European intellectual tradition, in particular, the way in which political thought and its consequences in action have become divorced from social and cultural experience.

  • - International Knowledge Transfer
    by Derek Robbins
    £110.49

    A detailed, imaginative approach to five key social theorists who have helped to shape modern thought. Robbins is a world class expert and his book represents a significant development in the field of french social theory.

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