Over the past four decades French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one ofthe most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era.When he ... » 

Over the past four decades French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one ofthe most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era.When he died in 2002 he was considered to be the most influential sociologistin the world and a thinker on a par with Foucault and L233viStrauss8212apublic intellectual as important to his generation as Sartre was to his.Sketch for a SelfAnalysis is the ultimate outcome of160Bourdieu8217slifelong preoccupation with reflexivity. Vehemently not an autobiography thisunique book is instead an application of Bourdieu8217s theories to his ownlife and intellectual trajectory along the way it offers compelling andintimate insights into the most important French intellectuals of thetime8212including Foucault Sartre Aron Althusser and deBeauvoir8212as well as Bourdieu8217s own formative experiences atboarding school and his moral outrage at the colonial war in Algeria. «