The Bourdieu paradigm: The origins and evolution of an intellectual social project

Analysing the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch, Merleau—Ponty and Bourdieu, this book considers the historical development of competing philosophies of social science. It examines the relations between phenomenology, Gestalt psychology and empirical social science in the first half of the twentieth century and then explores the way in which Bourdieu responded to this legacy by advocating a form of reflexive social—scientific investigation, which would remain faithful to primary experience without ...