aeo This volume is an outstanding collection of critical essays on Bourdieua s work, it provides the best critical appraisal of Bourdieu which is currently available. aeo The contributors are well known and well established authors. aeo The volume also includes a new essay by Bourdieu in which he replies to his critics.

Introduction. 1. Culture and the Concept of Culture in a Theory of Practice: Edward Lipuma. 2. Can There be a Science of Existential Structure and Social Meaning?: Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. 3. To Follow a Rule.... : Charles Taylor. 4. Habitus, Field, and Capital: The Question of Historical Specificity: Craig Calhoun. 5. Aspects of Structural and Processual Theories of Knowledge: Aaron Cicourel. 6. Determination and Contradiction: An Appreciation and Critique of the Work of Pierre Bourdieu on Language and Education: Jim Collins. 7. Notes on Semantics in Linguistic Practice: Bill Hanks. 8. Gender and Symbolic Violence: Female Oppression in the Light of Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Social Practice: Beate Krais. 9. Bourdieu, the Cultural Arbitary and Television: Nicholas Garnham. 10. Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Economy, and Social Change: Scott Lash. 11. Social Theory as Habitus: Rogers Brubaker. 12. Bourdieu in America: Notes on the Transatlantic Importation of Social Theory: Loic Wacquant. Concluding Remarks: Pierre Bourdieu.

This volume presents a critical appraisal of Bourdieu's work, spanning the fields of sociology, anthropology and cultural studies. The essays show how Bourdieu's voluminous work forms a distinctive intellectual approach, compare Bourdieu's analytic approach to others current in Anglo-American sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, and raise a variety of crucial theoretical questions that are important to understanding Bourdieu. Contributors include Hubert Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, Charles Taylor, Aaron Cicourel, James Collins, William Hanks, Beate Krais, Nicholas Garnham, Scott Lash, Rogers Brubaker and Loic Wacquant as well as the editors. In an essay written especially for this volume, Bourdieu describes his own 'mode of intellectual production' and the reasons for its common misunderstanding.