Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art

Jeffrey A. Halley, Ph.D. (1978), City University of New York, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas San Antonio. He has published on avant-gardes and Dada, art movements and organizations, Mexican American arts, music, theory, and Adorno. Daglind E. Sonolet, Ph.D. (1977, 2000), Universities Paris-X and Paris-IV. She taught at the Universities of Leeds and Bordeaux, at UTSA, and Temple and has published on reading practice, philosophical and civic commitment, exile and identity in literature and art.

“Based on a series of conferences, working groups, and translations of classic French texts on the matter until now unavailable to the English-speaking reader, the book sheds light on the context of origin of some of Bourdieu’s most important contributions to the sociology of the arts and culture—its legacy, its aporias, and its debates with contemporaries, disciples and dissenters alike. […] The volume should be of interest not only to those working in the sociology of arts and literature, but also to those who wish to read about new currents in the French sociology of culture and French social theory at large.”-- Claudio E. Benzecry, Northwestern University, in: Contemporary Sociology 48/6 (2019)"[...] the importance of the book. It is a contribution to the sociological literature on Bourdieu, the sociology of art, as well as French studies generally. It also fills a translation gap in bringing a large number of works to the Anglophone reader. Its strength lies in its attention to theoretical as well as empirical work, as well as its avoidance of intellectual partisanship by exposing the reader to a range of perspectives on Bourdieu’s sociology of art, some positive, others unfavorable."-- Marnia Lazreg, in Sociological Forum, Vol. 34, No. 1 (04 March 2019)"[...] ein in Sammelbänden eher seltenes Kunststück: die einzelnen Beiträge beziehen sich aufeinander und reflektieren einander. Dadurch werden beim Lesen viele Verknüpfungen hergestellt und man verfällt leicht in einen Lesefluss. Ein weiterer Pluspunkt ist auch die Autor*innenauswahl: Im Band vertreten sind viele im französischsprachigen Raum renommierte Autor*innen, wie unter anderem Raymonde Moulin, Jean-Claude Passeron, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Pierre-Michel Menger, Emanuel Pedler und Marie Buscatto, die nun auch nicht-französisch sprechende Leser*innen kennen lernen dürfen. [...] Nicht zuletzt besticht der Sammelband durch die Vielfalt seiner Themen.[...] Auch die Vielschichtigkeit des Bandes ist besonders hervorzuheben.So werden etwa in einer historisch-soziologischen Darstellung die Entwicklungslinien Bourdieus nachgezeichnet, weniger prominenten/unbekannteren Positionen Bourdieus wird Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt und auch vereinzelte missing links in seinen Theorien aufgezeigt."-- Tamara Schwertel, Soziologie Blog, 23 July 2018

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsList of Contributors1 IntroductionJeffrey A. Halley and Daglind E. SonoletPart 1: Bourdieu’s Contemporaries: Raymonde Moulin, Howard S. Becker, Jean-Claude Passeron, Jacques Leenhardt2 The Museum and the Marketplace: The Constitution of Value in Contemporary ArtRaymonde Moulin3 The Anglophone Reception of French Sociology: The Case of Bourdieu and Subsequent ScholarshipHoward S. Becker4 The Time Devoted to Observing Each Work of ArtJean-Claude Passeron and Emmanuel Pedler5 What is Literature? Notes on The Rules of Art by Pierre BourdieuJacques LeenhardtPart 2: The Second Generation: Bruno Péquginot, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Pierre-Michel Menger, Nathalie Heinich, Martine Burgos, Yvon Lamy6 The Issue of the Artwork: A Site under Construction in Pierre Bourdieu’s TheoryBruno Péquignot7 Theory and Practice in French Sociology after Pierre BourdieuJean-Louis Fabiani8 Inequalities in the ArtsPierre-Michel Menger9 Bourdieu’s CultureNathalie Heinich10 Founding a Reading Group at a Library for the Young: The Story of Its Creation and Variations Martine Burgos11 On a Contemporary Principle of Public Classification: Heritage Conversion of Cultural PropertyYvon LamyPart 3: The Next Generation: Emmanuel Pedler, Florent Gaudez, Alain Quemin, Laurent Fleury, Marie Buscatto, Clara Lévy and Cherry Schrecker, Cécile Léonardi12 Musical Understanding and Cultural Misunderstanding: The Concert as a Site of Symbolic ConfrontationEmmanuel Pedler13 Empiricity and the Process of Production in Literature: The Text as the Field of Socio-Anthropological InvestigationFlorent Gaudez14 How International is “International” Contemporary Art? An Empirical Survey of the Globalization of High CultureAlain Quemin15 The Work of the Institution: The Democratization of Culture in the Light of the Legacy of the Théâtre National PopulaireLaurent Fleury16 Trying to Get in, Getting in, Staying in: The Three Challenges for Women Jazz MusiciansMarie Buscatto17 In What Way (or Not) is Bourdieu Useful to the Sociology of Literature?Clara Lévy, and Cherry Schrecker18 The Art of Self-ReflectingCécile LéonardiPart 4: Editors’ Contributions19 Mondo Vino: Rationalization, Resistance, and Taste in the Wine WorldJeffrey A. Halley20 Literature and Modernity: Günther Anders, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor W. Adorno – Interpreters of KafkaDaglind E. SonoletIndex of SubjectsIndex of Names