Edited and Introduced by Franck Poupeau and Thierry Discepolo Translated by Gregory Elliott

Urgent political writings of the major twentieth-century sociologist

Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as "a combat sport." This comprehensive collection of his writings on politics and social science from the Algerian War of Independence in the early 1960s to the last text he published before his death bears out that this vision, far from being the product of a “turn” in the 1990s, was enduring throughout his life.

Pierre Bourdieu, 1930–2002 was Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France. He was the author of many books, most notably Distinction, The Rules of Art, The State Nobility, and Weight of the World