Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This review examines Pierre Bourdieu's lectures at the Collège de France between 1987 and 1989, compiled in the book L’Intérêt au désintéressement (2022), edited by Julien Duval. These lectures represent Bourdieu's first foray into the analysis of the State, exploring state legitimacy and power through a negative approach that investigates interest and disinterest within various production fields that seek to sustain a universal discourse. Bourdieu examines the legal field, the bureaucratic field, and even the field of Sociology to understand the construction and maintenance of state power. He argues that the rationalization of the State involves a symbolic dimension, where state power is upheld by a system of beliefs and practices that confer legitimacy to state institutions. From this analysis, it can be derived that the modern State can be understood as a meta-field capable of imposing its norms on other social fields, creating a complex network where universality and disinterest are simultaneously constructed and valued.
Source: Tempo Social
Author: Camila Assunção Crumo
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo
Language: English
Topic: Social and Cultural Dynamics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405290633