Pierre Bourdieu Quotes on Politics
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher whose work fundamentally reshaped the twentieth-century social sciences. This page collects quotes attributed to Pierre Bourdieu on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Pierre Bourdieu:
“The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.”
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Attributed to Pierre Bourdieu:
“Habitus is the embodied history of social position.”
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Attributed to Pierre Bourdieu:
“Cultural capital is at least as decisive as economic capital in shaping life chances.”
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Attributed to Pierre Bourdieu:
“Symbolic violence is exercised most powerfully when it is not seen as violence.”
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Attributed to Pierre Bourdieu:
“Sociology is a martial art.”
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Attributed to Pierre Bourdieu:
“The disenchantment of the world is the deepest of modernity's effects.”