On 6/1/10, Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh dona...@hotmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to expand my horizons. One person who's work I'm looking into is
Pierre Bourdieu.
What are the key works from a marxist perspective? I'm also keen to find out
any marxist critiques on his work - although I have to say
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Stephen, sorry I don't speak German very well at all, certainly not sufficient
to read any of this material in German. But thanks anyway.
CB, I think you misinterpreted me - perhaps it's my own inadequate
self-expression - I think Bourdieu's approach is fundamentally marxist - it
does not
Thanks everyone for all the help.
cb - I take your point. I ventured somewhere with the Lenin stuff that I did
not want to. I obviously have misunderstood the little I've read...more reading
there remains.
Ralph - thanks for your summary it helped a lot. Am looking forward to those
Here are some Fromm links:
Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium edited by Erich Fromm
http://autodidactproject.org/other/socialist-humanism.html
Internationale Erich-Fromm-Gesellschaft e.V. (English version)
http://www.erich-fromm.de/e/index.htm
Origin Myths in the Social Sciences:
I do not see Fromm's psychoanalysis as idealist at all, no matter what
Marcuse says. However, Fromm's specific assessments of people and
ideas, e.g. Pope John XXIII or D.T. Suzuki, smack of a lack of
groundedness.
Marcuse, Horkheimer, and Adorno spent the 1930s turning idealism on its
head,
