The Interest in Disinterestedness : Lectures at the College de France 1987-1989 (Hardcover)

Editor’s note


Year of 1987-1988


March 10 1988
Internal reading, external reading and autonomy - Forgetting the microcosm - The coherence and normativity of the law - The space of works and the space of positions - A canonical text by d’Aguesseau - The invention of the public as a new sovereign.


March 17 1988
Common sense and the feel for the game in a field - The transfiguration of common sense into specialised meanings (sequel) - Producing a love for the game - Two other questions - The double historicization - The Jansenist influence and the problem of self-love - Inventing the public: the oracle effect - Producing the universal with individual interests


March 24 1988
What is a quotation? - The effect of the social sciences on the social world - From interesting conditions to disinterestedness - The principle of sufficient reason and its suspension - Logical logic and practical logics - Conditions creating interest in disinterestedness - Spontaneous submission to the rules of the field - Genesis of the rules of the juridical field - Business law and pure law - Cross-checking - The force of the ideal - Escaping historicism.


Lecture of April 14 1988
The claim to be universal - Does a space beyond positions exist? - Two canonical positions - The organicist metaphor - A quasi-divine viewpoint - Durkheim’s lapses - The reinvention of Hegel’s theory - The State, a movement towards unity - Bureaucracy - Durkheim, State sociologist.


Lecture of April 21 1988
A charitable reading of Marx’s theory of the State - An enchanted vision and a disenchanted vision of the State - The unconscious corporatism of the sociologists - A sociological critique of the social sciences - First false problem: does sociology liberate or? manipulate? Second false problem: continuity or break? - Towards a social history of the social sciences - The ‘prehistory of the social sciences’ - The birth of the social sciences in an awkward position - Scientific sociology and France as a special case - The separation of? national traditions during the interwar period - The triumphant postwar development


Year of 1988-1989


Lecture of January 19 1989
The essays on the State - Disinterestedness is suspect - An inverted world and its genesis - The ghost of economic reality - Understanding the oblates - Two universal observations.


Lecture of? January 26 1989
A plan for an enquiry into the Pechiney affair - A transhistorical sociology of ethical dispositions - The habitus and the Kantian ethic.


Lecture of February 2 1989

The regulated transgression of the bureaucratic rule - Political field and bureaucratic field - The categories of technocratic understanding - The notion of profession, a scholarly myth - The definition of the concept


Lecture of February 9 1989
A sociodicy behind the description of a historical process - The profession, a scholarly myth - Profession, corps and field - The theory of the professions as a negative theory of the State - The school as liberator - Continuity and genesis of the great corps.


Lecture of February 16 1989
The medical profession and the State - Weber and the ‘educational patent’ - Sate magic, certification, magic and the educational universe - The confinement of the dominant - A programme of research - Approaching the State - The time of law - The origins of sociology.


Pierre Bourdieu at the Gates of the State. Situating the Lectures of 1987-1988 and 1988-1989
Julien Duval


Summaries of the Lectures Published in the Annual of the College de France


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