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1983) 'Hannah Arendt', in A. %. J. (1980)Into the Dark. Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism Philadelphia, Temple University Press Young-Bruehl, E. (1982)Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World New Haven and London, Yale University Press This anaiysis of the academic world is the end product of the critical reflection on scientific practice which I have never crased to conduct as part of the vesy process of my research>since the time when, as a young ethnologist, 1 took my own native region as the object of my ethnological investigation (Bourdieu 1962).
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And as the reigninuit (they have published 14 of his books over ince 1977)>Bourdieu constantly cultivates this sociocuitural m a r g i n a l i ~as an essential in redienr in the m a i ~ ~ t c n a n of ce his particular sociolog~calperspective and of his position within the inreilectual field (champ-a field of battle; a space of a c t i ~ n free ) ~ of a SOCIAL THEORY academic factions? fads -as a Durkheimian? a alist . He seeks con our consciousness and action by ideologica for granted as '~ommonsense~~ revealing how band are so many of the things we treasure as rare9 how widespread are qualities and behaviours we assume t o be unique9 how public d shared are the things we assume t o be private and personal (see rdieu 1980: 40-1)- His sociology is overtly political as he aims at the transformation of culture and society through subversive revelation?