The Field of Cultural Production (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism) - Tapa dura

Bourdieu's most significant work on cultural production--David Hesmondhalgh "Media, Culture, and Society "

What distinguishes this book is that its author so convincingly, so thoroughly and so successfully transcends the dual- isms which attend the clumsy formulation of art and society and which lead expla- nation to the unhappy choices of textual- ism or contextualism. Bourdieu shows how misleading is the preposition 'and' in 'art and society'.--Gordon Fyfe "British Journal of Sociology "

The Field of Cultural Production is fashioned as both an introduction to Bourdieu's sociology and as a survey of his major essays on art and literature.--Tom Huhn "Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism "

It is a coherent, stimulating and indispensable set of essays gathered in one book that affirm Bourdieu's place as the most interesting of sociologists of culture to think with.--Kieran Flanagan "Sociology "

The Field of Cultural Production is a book about this kind of struggle as it takes place among the creators, distributors, and critics of cultural products, and it attempts to explain why this specialized conflict should be regarded as of primary importance in determinig the character of our cultural life. In another sense, the book is part of Bourdieu's continuing brief for his own conception of an intellectual mission, and it attempts to avoid the errors he perceives in elitism and populism by yoking their disparate valences to the tense balance of what he calls a "reflexive sociology."--Sean McCann "American Quarterly "

A collection of the author's essays on art and literature, which expounds Bourdieu's theory of a cultural field that situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation and consumption.