Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002

Distinction : a social critique of the judgement of taste / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice, with a new introduction by Tony Bennett - xxx, 607 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Originally published: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1984

In 'Distinction', Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world. Focusing on the French bourgeoisie - its tastes and preferences - 'Distinction' is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind

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Middle class--France
Aesthetics, French
Judgment (Aesthetics)

306.0944 / .B67 2010

306.0944