45 Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

Det är just strukturen hos världens ekonomiska fält som utövar ett strukturellt tvång, vilket ger mekanismen ett sken av ödesbestämdhet.

Les inégalités devant la culture ne sont nulle part aussi marquées que dans le domaine où, en l'absence d'un enseignement organisé, les comportements culturels obéissent aux déterminismes sociaux plus qu'à la logique des goûts et des engouements individuels.

Saya sudah menunjukkan secara panjang lebar dalam La distinction di mana cinta itu juga bisa dideskripsikan sebagai bentuk dari amor fati, bahwa mencintai sampai titik tertentu selalu berarti mencintai seseorang sebagai cara lain untuk memenuhi takdir sosialnya sendiri.

The history of the transformation of myth into religion (ideology) is not separable from the history of the constitution of a corps of specialized producers of religious rites and discourses, i.e. the progress of the division of religious labour, which is itself a dimension of the progress of the division of social labour, and hence the division into classes.

El juego político es un asunto de profesionales para impulsar, sobre todo entre la gente menos politizada, un desapego fatalista, favorable, evidentemente, al mantenimiento del orden establecido.

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.