Possibility and necessity of critical intellectual: notes to Translations of Bourdieu and Wacquant Cover Image

Možnost in nujnost kritičnega intelektualca: k prevodoma Bourdieuja in Wacquanta
Possibility and necessity of critical intellectual: notes to Translations of Bourdieu and Wacquant

Author(s): Taja Kramberger
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Slovensko sociološko društvo (in FDV)
Keywords: critical intellectual; democracy; ideology; Pierre Bourdieu; Loďc Wacquant

Summary/Abstract: In this short introductory to the thematic on deconstruction of neoliberalism as a new ideology, which puts different fields of production under its own market criterion, the author emphasizes the basic role of a critical intellectual. Active interventions are not seen as an aside and an unnecessary activity of researchers, but are rather a precondition for democracy and for maintenance of autonomy of particular social fields. The author also lapidary sketches intellectual paths and few trajectories of the two important critical thinkers Pierre Bourdieu, and his younger collaborator and colleague Loďc Wacquant; the introductory is augmented by their short biographies and selected bibliographies.

  • Issue Year: 19/2003
  • Issue No: 43
  • Page Range: 49-55
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Slovenian