Contents

 

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Positions

The field of reception

The field of production

Lévi-Strauss and structuralism

The death of intellectuals

Post-structuralism

Appendix: the composition of Les Règles de l’art

2. Methods

Epistemological preliminaries

The author’s point of view

The field of power

The literary field

Habitus and trajectory

The space of possibilities

World literary space

Appendix: reflexivity and reading

3. Autonomy

The evolution of the literary field

Art and money

Zola and the Dreyfus affair

Reversals

Autonomy and value

4. Science and Literature

L’Éducation sentimentale

‘Le démontage impie de la fiction’

Cross-overs

Fiction and realism

5. Literature and Cultural Politics

The production of the dominant ideology

‘La Pensée Tietmeyer’

On aesthetics and ideology

A politics of form

For a collective intellectual

6. Literature and Cultural Policy

Reproduction and distinction

Proposals for the future of education

Between the state and the free market

For a corporatism of the universal

Conclusion

References

A. Works by Pierre Bourdieu

B. Secondary sources

C. Collectively or anonymously authored works

Index