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The Bourdieu Affair
Niilo Kauppisubject
Style (visual arts)PresentationStock exchangeMediocrity principleAestheticsmedia_common.quotation_subjectSociologyCapitalismMoralityInjusticemedia_commondescription
In this chapter, the author analyzes Pierre Bourdieu as a representative of the French intellectual tradition. In the name of morality, he rose to defend those who suffered injustice. In the Bourdieu affair, the sufferers of injustice were the unemployed and part-time workers. The opponents were the neoliberal market ideologists, historical successors to the form of capitalism Emile Zola had already dissected in his book on the stock exchange, Avarice (greed), as well as audio-visual communication tools, which Bourdieu accused of mediocrity. As in the cases of Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre, Bourdieu’s message is universal, even though the problems selected, the form of their presentation and the style of debate are French.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-01 |