[lbo-talk] do people still read post-structuralism?

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sat Oct 31 04:50:49 PDT 2009


On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, James Heartfield wrote:


> In all seriousness, what worthwhile idea or text did post-structuralism ever
> put before us?

Just to take sociology, and just off the top of my head:

Pierre Bourdieu's _Distinction_ is a classic of social theory, the equal of the big books of Weber, Simmel and Durkheim.

Paul Willis's _Learning to Labor_ is a classic ethnographic study.

Michael



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