Just How Pascalian are the Pascalian Meditations ? Critical Reflections on the Theological Unconscious of Bourdieusian Theory
Why did Bourdieu ally himself with Pascal? This article provides some tentative answers. It emphasizes similarities in the two men’s social trajectories and symbolic position-takings as well as in their views about human nature and political community. They were pessimistic and fatalistic. Pascal’s...
Subtitles: | SYMPOSIUM: Does Social Theory Need Religion? |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
[2016]
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 77, Issue: 3, Pages: 280-296 |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |