The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu - (Key Issues in Modern Sociology) by Simon Susen & Bryan S Turner (Paperback)

About the Book

This volume explores the sociological legacy of the late Pierre Bourdieu through an examination of the intellectual division between his reception in the world of French social sciences and his reception in the Anglophone world.

Book Synopsis

This volume explores the sociological legacy of the late Pierre Bourdieu through an examination of the intellectual division between his reception in the world of French social sciences and his reception in the Anglophone world.

Review Quotes

'[Offers] ample evidence [...] of the continuing influence of Pierre Bourdieu a decade after his death in 2002. [...] The distinctive contribution of Susen and Turner's collection is that half of its chapters discuss Bourdieu in relation to another theorist [...].' -Arthur W. Frank, 'Canadian Journal of Sociology - Cahiers canadiens de sociologie'

'The individual contributions to this volume, it should be clear, have much to offer. On balance, this is a valuable contribution towards the critical appreciation of perhaps the most important sociologist of the past half century.' -Mathieu Desan, 'Thesis Eleven'

'This collection of critical essays attempts to map out the influential "legacy" of the work of Pierre Bourdieu.' -Omar Lizardo, 'Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews'

'This is a very impressive and rich collection [...] a major contribution to the rich field of Bourdieusian analysis' -Elizabeth B. Silva, 'Journal of Classic Sociology'

About the Author

Simon Susen is Lecturer in Social and Political Theory at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of the Committee on Religion at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, University of Western Sydney.