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.

Acknowledgments
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List of Contributors

1 Introduction
 Jeffrey A. Halley and Daglind E. Sonolet

Part 1: Bourdieu’s Contemporaries: Raymonde Moulin, Howard S. Becker, Jean-Claude Passeron, Jacques Leenhardt
2 The Museum and the Marketplace: The Constitution of Value in Contemporary Art
 Raymonde Moulin
3 The Anglophone Reception of French Sociology: The Case of Bourdieu and Subsequent Scholarship
 Howard S. Becker
4 The Time Devoted to Observing Each Work of Art
 Jean-Claude Passeron and Emmanuel Pedler
5 What is Literature? Notes on The Rules of Art by Pierre Bourdieu
 Jacques Leenhardt

Part 2: The Second Generation: Bruno Péquginot, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Pierre-Michel Menger, Nathalie Heinich, Martine Burgos, Yvon Lamy
6 The Issue of the Artwork: A Site under Construction in Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory
 Bruno Péquignot
7 Theory and Practice in French Sociology after Pierre Bourdieu
 Jean-Louis Fabiani
8 Inequalities in the Arts
 Pierre-Michel Menger
9 Bourdieu’s Culture
 Nathalie Heinich
10 Founding a Reading Group at a Library for the Young: The Story of Its Creation and Variations
 Martine Burgos
11 On a Contemporary Principle of Public Classification: Heritage Conversion of Cultural Property
 Yvon Lamy

Part 3: The Next Generation: Emmanuel Pedler, Florent Gaudez, Alain Quemin, Laurent Fleury, Marie Buscatto, Clara Lévy and Cherry Schrecker, Cécile Léonardi
12 Musical Understanding and Cultural Misunderstanding: The Concert as a Site of Symbolic Confrontation
 Emmanuel Pedler
13 Empiricity and the Process of Production in Literature: The Text as the Field of Socio-Anthropological Investigation
 Florent Gaudez
14 How International is “International” Contemporary Art? An Empirical Survey of the Globalization of High Culture
 Alain Quemin
15 The Work of the Institution: The Democratization of Culture in the Light of the Legacy of the Théâtre National Populaire
 Laurent Fleury
16 Trying to Get in, Getting in, Staying in: The Three Challenges for Women Jazz Musicians
 Marie Buscatto
17 In What Way (or Not) is Bourdieu Useful to the Sociology of Literature?
 Clara Lévy, and Cherry Schrecker
18 The Art of Self-Reflecting
 Cécile Léonardi

Part 4: Editors’ Contributions
19 Mondo Vino: Rationalization, Resistance, and Taste in the Wine World
 Jeffrey A. Halley
20 Literature and Modernity: Günther Anders, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor W. Adorno – Interpreters of Kafka
 Daglind E. Sonolet

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