Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieuwas a sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and renowned public intellectual...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth1 August 1930
CountryFrance
successful silence needs
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
algeria accepting
Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.
photography groups produce
Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.
photography reality objectivity
In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.
hobbies culture influence
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
art struggle understanding
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.
practice logic
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
pay talent clarity
Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.