La distinzione. Critica sociale del gusto

Bourdieu is getting high praise here on Goodreads and, no offense, but did you read the whole thing? Now, don't get me wrong, if I were to teach a class on aesthetics, the first chapter, an absolute masterpiece, would be required reading. But for crying out loud, read the whole thing and read it crit Leggi tutto

This is Bourdieu’s most famous book. And it is long, with much of part 3 probably of only passing interest even to people a bit obsessed with Bourdieu. The problem is that the data is all quite old now and so unless you are particularly interested in how various social fractions of the French class Leggi tutto

God, how I hate this bastard. And, god, how smart he is. I have quibbles with his methodology and instrument and the wholesale applicability of his findings outside L'Hexagone, but fuck. I might prefer Thorsten's Midwestern flair and more straightforward style, but Bourdieu has a lot of potent thing Leggi tutto

بوردیو در این کتاب به ما نشان می‌دهد که طبع و قریحه افراد، به شدت تحت تأثیر موقعیت اجتماعی آن‌ها، جایگاه طبقاتی و خط سیر فردی و طبقاتی آن‌ها در سلسله مراتب اجتماعی قرار دارد. تعریف جامعه از هنر پست و هنر والا کاملا تحت تأثیر تضاد منافع گروه‌ها و طبقات مختلف اجتماعی قرار دارد و در نهایت گروهی که از ب Leggi tutto

Najpre, ovo je izuzetno važna knjiga u kojoj se može naći univerzum savremenih socioloških i estetičkih perspektiva. Takođe, ovo je i jedan teorijski tornado, armiran svim mogućim intelektualnim aparatima: ujedno i enciklopedija disanja društva i džinovski elaborat o njegovim uslovljenostima. Svašta Leggi tutto

Bourdieu’s distinction offers a lot. By a lot, I mean 600 pages of analyses, graphs, and studies, in some of the densest prose imaginable. Bourdieu seems to be able to expand a simple sentence’s worth of information into entire paragraphs that flow like dense molasses. Distinction does have a lot to Leggi tutto

"Tastes (i.e., manifested preferences) are the practical affirmation of an inevitable difference. It is no accident that, when they have to be justified, they are asserted purely negatively, by the refusal of other tastes." This book had a sickening impact upon me, an insidious trembling, and it real Leggi tutto

This book...is not easy in the slightest. As one reader previously wrote: "sometimes I wish Bourdieu knew what a simple sentence was." Or something like that. The point is, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste is ridiculously dense and stuffed the very brim with analyzation and g Leggi tutto

Das war etwas anstrenged, aber interessant. Es geht zwar darum, wie Geschmack zum Ausdruck gebracht wird, aber trotzdem ist das Beschriebene sehr statisch, abgesehen von den kurzen Abschnitten, in denen Menschen ihren Geschmack beschreiben. Überhaupt, Abschnitte! Es gibt den Haupttext in Normalgröße Leggi tutto