Long a dominant figure in the French human sciences, Pierre Bourdieu has become internationally influential in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies. A major figure in the development of "practice" as an organizing concept in social research, Bourdieu has emerged as the foremost advocate of reflexive social science; his work combines an astonishing range of empirical work with highly sophisticated theory. American reception of his works, however, has lacked a full understanding of their place within the broad context of French human science. His individual works separated by distinct boundaries between social science fields in American academia, Bourdieu's cohesive thought has arrived in the USA in fragments. "Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives" provides an appraisal of Bourdieu's varied works by both proponents and sceptics. The essays are written from the varied viewpoints of cultural anthropology, ethnomethodology and other varieties of sociology, existential and Wittgensteinian philosophies, linguistics, media studies, and feminism. They work around three main themes: Bourdieu's effort to transcend gaps between practical knowledge and universal structures, his central concept of "reflexivity", and the relations between social structure, systems of classification, and language. In an essay written especially for this volume, Bourdieu describes his own "mode of intellectual production" and the reasons he sees for its common misunderstanding.

当代知名左翼思想家 马克思主义历史学家 莫伊舍·普殊同 蜚声国际的代表作 荣获美国社会学学会理论著作奖 推动20世纪晚期马克思主义研究的转型 拥有英、德、法、西、日等多个语言版本 【内容简介】 在《时间、劳动与社会统治》一书中，普殊同对马克思的成熟期批判理论进行了一次彻 底的重新阐释。他对传统马克思主义分析提出了许多质疑，并给出了对马克思的核心论述的全新阐释。为此，他发展出了一系列概念，旨在把握现代社会的本质特征和历史发展，并克服结构与行动、意义与物质生活等熟悉的二分法。 这些概念引向了他对资本主义的性质和问题的原创性分析。根据这一全新阐释，在马克思看来，资本主义体系的核心不仅在于市场机制和私有财产，而在于一种由劳动本身所产生的非个人的社会统治形式。无产阶级劳动和工业生产过程被描述为这种统治的表现方式，而非人类解放的手段。这一再阐释带来了对现代社会生活的历史运动特质的批判性分析。它将现代社会中的经济发展形式和社会劳动结构与居于资本主义心脏处的异化和统治联系了起来。普殊同指出，这样一种重构将为一种更加适用于20世纪晚期资本主义的批判性社会理论奠定基础。 【名人推荐】 本书是自大卫·哈维《资本的限度》（1982）以来，对马克思的成熟期政治经济理论所展开的最佳分析。它显然是普殊同经年研究与长期思考的成果，也是那种值得人们等待的著作。 ——戴维·麦克莱伦（David McLellan，伦敦大学政治学客座讲授） 普殊同是当代为数不多的真正尝试对政治经济学予以批判的理论家之一。 ——斯拉沃热·齐泽克（Slavoj Žižek，伦敦大学伯贝克学院人文研究所所长） 普殊同雄心勃勃地试图复活马克思理念的生机。在分析这些理念时，他以马克思所嘱意的那种历史特殊性为门径，而非依从后来那些引人误解的、超历史的、普遍化了的理解。这部精深的阐释之作将为试图理解其雄辩论述的读者带来丰富的教益。 ——罗伯特·海尔布伦（Robert Heilbroner，社会研究新学院教授，美国经济学会副会长） 在这部复杂、精深、论述详瞻、极富教益的著作中，普殊同对《资本论》的核心结构进行了根本性的重构和再阐释。该书论述严格、周备，即便对那些对资本主义动力怀有其他看法的人而言，也是一部核心读物。 ——鲍勃·杰索普（Bob Jessop，兰卡斯特大学社会学教授） 普殊同的论述既重要又富于挑衅性。 ——西蒙·克拉克（Simon Clarke，沃里克大学社会学荣休教授） 在这部人们期待已久的著作中，普殊同为资本主义危机之所以无法在不进行根本性变革的前提下结束，提供了新的、富有想象力的解释。在这一过程中，他为弥补法兰克福学派的批判理论中常常为人所遗憾的“经济学缺漏”做出了长足的贡献。 ——马丁·杰伊（Martin Jay，加州大学伯克利分校历史学教授） 普殊同的这部著作是至今为止以拓展法兰克福学派视野的方式最为彻底、最为严格地重新阐释马克思成熟社会理论的著作之一。 ——慕唯仁（Viren Murthy，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学副教授） 在重新思考马克思的批判理论这一成果迭出的当代领域中，这部书是最为深刻的作品之一。 ——托马斯·麦卡锡（Thomas McCarthy，西北大学哲学教授） 他的研究丝毫没有那种“回到基本问题”的著作所特有的枯燥，他所揭示的范畴——商品、劳动、价值、时间——和这个世纪中被分析的所有范畴一样迷人。当马克思的方案和源自《大纲》的后资本主义生活远景结合起来时，这一方案突然变得比晚近的某些辩论更富生机，而那些辩论的主题正是如何将这一理论所预示的东西束之高阁。 ——珍妮·舒勒（Jeanne Schuler，克瑞顿大学哲学副教授）

Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. He does so by developing concepts aimed at grasping the essential character and historical development of modern society, and also at overcoming the familiar dichotomies of structure and action, meaning and material life. These concepts lead him to an original analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of 'actually existing socialism'. According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination rather than as means of human emancipation. This reinterpretation entails the form of economic growth and the structure of social labor in modern society to the alienation and domination at the heart of capitalism. This reformulation, Postone argues, provides the foundation for a critical social theory that is more adequate to late twentieth-century capitalism.