Bourdieu and Marx

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. Introduction. Heirs: Bourdieu, Marx and Ourselves

   • Gabriella Paolucci

   Pages 1-22

3. Domination: Practising Critique

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Bourdieu with Marx, from Economy to Ecology

      • Jacques Bidet

      Pages 25-42

   3. Violence, Symbolic Violence and the Decivilizing Process: Approaches from Marx, Elias and Bourdieu

      • Bridget Fowler

      Pages 43-70

   4. Putting Marx in the Dock: Practice of Logic and Logic of the Practice

      • Gabriella Paolucci

      Pages 71-102

   5. The Poverty of Philosophy: Marx Meets Bourdieu

      • Michael Burawoy

      Pages 103-129

   6. Marx/Bourdieu: Convergences and Tensions, Between Critical Sociology and Philosophy of Emancipation

      • Philippe Corcuff

      Pages 131-151

   7. Bourdieu on the State: Beyond Marx?

      • David L. Swartz

      Pages 153-175

4. Inheriting Critique of Economic Practices and Theories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Practice and Form: Economic Critique with Marx and Bourdieu

      • Peter Streckeisen

      Pages 179-197

   3. Does Bourdieu “Extend” Marx’s Concept of Capital?

      • Mathieu Hikaru Desan

      Pages 199-215

   4. Reassessing Bourdieu’s Use of the Marxian Concept of Capital

      • Miriam Aiello

      Pages 217-248

   5. Bourdieu, Marx, and the Economy

      • Frédéric Lebaron

      Pages 249-261

   6. Marx and Bourdieu: From the Economy to the Economies

      • Alicia B. Gutiérrez

      Pages 263-281

5. Intellectual Field: Interpreting Critique of Ideology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283

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   2. Bourdieu, Marxism and Law: Between Radical Criticism and Political Responsibility

      • Gianvito Brindisi

      Pages 285-312

   3. If Theodicy is Always Sociodicy: Bourdieu and the Marxian Critique of Religion

      • Roberto Alciati

      Pages 313-325

   4. Bourdieu’s Lesson: Marx vs. Althusser?

      • Fabio Raimondi

      Pages 327-341

This new book gathers together essays concerning the strategic modes of appropriation that Bourdieu practiced with regard to Marx, together with their various outcomes. It is especially devoted to the practice of critique that both thinkers exercised vigilantly throughout their careers, as this is the terrain on which we can best illuminate the debt that Bourdieu acknowledged to Marx. Ongoing dialogue with the entire body of Marxian critique is a constant in Bourdieu's writings. This is most clearly evidenced by the adoption of a critical perspective on the social world that denotes a massive Marxian presence. It is reinforced by the repeated references to Marx’s texts that the sociologist scatters throughout his works. Indeed, in the interlinked set of critiques underpinning the architecture of his work, in the plethora of questions he raises, and in the scientific practice he adopts, Bourdieu attaches himself to the Marxian model — notwithstanding his polemical remarks and his own deviations, or, we might even say, by virtue of them. The book is divided into three interconnected sections for ease of access: critique of domination, critique of economic practices and theories,  and  critique of ideology. As the first volume in English to explore the relationship between Bourdieu and Marx, this book is vital reading for students and scholars of social and anthropological theory.

• Marx
• Bourdieu
• Marxist Sociology
• Critical Sociology
• Critical Theory
• Das Kapital
• Althusser

"This extremely welcome new collection is, remarkably, the first book length study – at least in the anglophone context – to reflect in detail on Bourdieu’s engagement with Marx. Such a project feels especially timely – indeed, long overdue – in this period of accelerating social crises. Resisting the temptation to create a mere itinerary of intellectual connections, or to measure one thinker against the other, the volume coheres around a much more urgent and reflexive set of concerns. These centre, in particular, on the practice of critique, understood, as Prof Paolucci puts it in her introduction to the volume, as ‘the terrain on which we can best illuminate the debt that Bourdieu wished to acknowledge to Marx’. In this sense the volume extends to its consideration of both writers, and to its consideration of their relationship, exactly those commitments to which they enjoined us: a refusal to preserve ideas in aspic; a concern to think through the interweaving of material and symbolic struggles; and, above all, the urgent possibility of defamiliarizing the social world." (Andrew Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of Glasgow, GB)

"Bourdieu's sociological work has positively developed a thought that broadens, not contradicts, the themes and horizons of Marx's work. This text, with its wealth of in-depth essays, shows very well how the categories of 'cultural capital' and 'symbolic violence' integrate potentialities and values that are already immanent but not explicit in the purely economic conception of 'the capital'." (Roberto Finelli, Professor of the History of Philosophy, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy)

• Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

  Gabriella Paolucci

Gabriella Paolucci is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Florence, Italy. Her research interests include time uses and experience, urban spaces, security policies, symbolic violence and State, and social theory, particularly with reference to Marx, Rawls, Sartre, Heller, Foucault, Bourdieu. Among her publications on Pierre Bourdieu are:  Bourdieu dopo Bourdieu (ed.), Turin, 2009; Introduzione a Bourdieu, Bari, 2011; “Key Concepts” and “The State and Economics” in Re-Thinking Economics: Exploring the Work of Pierre Bourdieu (eds. A. Cristoforou and M Lainé), London, 2015; Bourdieu & Marx: Pratiche della critica (ed.), Milan, 2018; and numerous articles on social sciences journals.