About the Author

Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the College de France. Stanford University Press has published nine other books by Bourdieu, most recently The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (1996).

Reviews

"Since the 1960s, Pierre Bourdieu's terrific constancy has been there to hold us to the vision and division of criticism, detachment, reason, truth. . . . The State Nobility is an enormous addition to his vast architecture." -- Times Higher Education Supplement