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Titre Bourdieu face au marxisme althussérien : la question de l'état
Auteur Julien Pallotta
Mir@bel Revue Actuel Marx
Numéro no 58, octobre 2015 Histoire et luttes de classes
Rubrique / Thématique
Interventions
Page 130-143
Résumé anglais
Bourdieu's engagement with Althusserian marxism: the question of the state
The article proposes to reexamine Bourdieu's relationship with Marxism, and more particularly with Althusserian Marxism. It is suggested here that Althusser may have functioned as a foil for Bourdieu, especially because of the similarities between the Althusserian theory of ideological power and Bourdieu's theory of symbolic power. The theory of the State is probably the most appropriate ground on which to compare the two thinkers. The recent publication of Bourdieu's lectures on the State allows one to see how he elaborated within his own historical sociology a theory of the State which is a response to Marxism : by responding to the Marxist critique of Hegel, Bourdieu seeks to show that the dominant, since they invoke the universal in order to legitimize their domination, can be only partially successful in doing so. Bourdieu ends up by conceding to Marxism that the universal makes significant progress only within the terms of the self-interested understanding of the universal which is proper to the dominant.
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