TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bourdieu,Pierre
TI  - Pascalian meditations
SN  - 074562054X
AV  - BD175 .B68 2000
U1  - 301/.01 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Pascal, Blaise
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - lc
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of
KW  - Reason
KW  - Sociologie et philosophie
KW  - ram
KW  - Sociologie de la connaissance
N1  - Translation of: M�ditations pascaliennes; Notes bibliogr. Index
N2  - "In this work, Pierre Bourdieu develops a critique of scholastic reason, making explicit the presuppositions entailed by the situation of ekbole of free time, liberated from the exigencies of the world, that makes possible a free and liberated relation to the world." "This critique is made in the name of Pascal because his thought expressed the features of human existence which the scholastic outlook ignores - his concern with power, custom, contingency and probability, his rejection of the search for foundations and his call for the kind of symbolic revolution which the social sciences must carry out in order to free themselves from the presuppositions of scholastic thought." "Through this Pascalian critique of scholarly reason, Bourdieu charts a negative philosophy which calls into question our most fundamental assumptions - such as that of a 'subject' which is free and transparent to itself - and which opens the way for a renewal of the social sciences and a reappraisal of the relation between the social sciences and politics." "This work will be essential reading for students of sociology, anthropology and the social sciences and humanities generally."--Jacket
ER  -