Louis althusser pierre bourdieu biography
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Louis Althusser
French Marxist philosopher (1918–1990)
Louis Pierre Althusser (, ;[4]French:[altysɛʁ]; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
Althusser was a long-time member and sometimes a strong critic of the French Communist Party. His arguments and theses were set against the threats that he saw attacking the theoretical foundations of Marxism. These included both the influence of empiricism on Marxist theory, and humanist and reformist orientations which manifested as divisions in the European communist parties, as well as the problem of the cult of personality and of ideology. Althusser is commonly referred to as a structural Marxist, although his relationship to other schools of French structuralism is not a simple affiliation and he was critical of many aspects of structuralism. He later described himself as a socia
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Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)
Pierre Bourdieu (, ; French:[pjɛʁbuʁdjø]; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual.[4][5] Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields (e.g. anthropology, media and cultural studies, education, popular culture, and the arts). During his academic career he was primarily associated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and the Collège de France.
Bourdieu's work was primarily concerned with the dynamics of power in society, especially the diverse and subtle ways in which power is transferred and social order is maintained within and across generations. In conscious opposition to the idealist tradition of much of Western philosophy, his work often emphasized the corporeal natu
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Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘The Biographical Illusion’ (1986)
Kolkenbrock, Marie. "Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘The Biographical Illusion’ (1986)". Biography in Theory: Key Texts with Commentaries, edited by Wilhelm Hemecker and Edward Saunders, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2017, pp. 217-228. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110516678-037
Kolkenbrock, M. (2017). Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘The Biographical Illusion’ (1986). In W. Hemecker & E. Saunders (Ed.), Biography in Theory: Key Texts with Commentaries (pp. 217-228). Berlin, Boston: dem Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110516678-037
Kolkenbrock, M. 2017. Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘The Biographical Illusion’ (1986). In: Hemecker, W. and Saunders, E. ed. Biography in Theory: Key Texts with Commentaries. Berlin, Boston: dem Gruyter, pp. 217-228. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110516678-037
Kolkenbrock, Marie. "Life as Trajectory: Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘The Biographical Illusion’ (1986)" I