Homo Academicus

by Pierre Bourdieu

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This highly acclaimed work, in which Pierre Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world and offers a brilliant analysis of modern intellectual culture, is now available in paperback. The academy is shown to be not just a realm of dialogue and debate, but also a sphere of power in which reputations and careers are made, defended and destroyed.

Bourdieu constructs a map of the intellectual field in France and analyzes the forms of capital power, the lines of conflict and the patterns of change which characterize the system of higher education in France today.

  • ISBN10 0745608310
  • ISBN13 9780745608310
  • Publish Date 4 September 1990 (first published 6 October 1988)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Polity Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 376
  • Language English