This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that language should he viewed not only as a means of communication but also as a medium of power through which individuals pursue their own interests and display their practical competence. Drawing on the concepts that are part of his distinctive theoretical approach. Bourdieu maintains that linguistic utterances or expressions can be understood as the product of the relation between a linguistic market" and it "linguistic habitus." When individuals use language in particular ways, they deploy their accumulated linguistic resources and implicitly adapt their words to the demands of the social held or market that is their audience. Hence every linguistic interaction, however personal or insignificant it may seem, hears the traces of the social structure that it both expresses and helps to reproduce. Bourdieu's account sheds fresh light on the ways in which linguistic usage varies according to considerations such as class and gender. It also opens up a new approach to the ways in which language is used in the domain of politics. For politics is, among other things, the arena in which words are deeds and the symbolic character of power is at stake. This volume, by one of the leading social thinkers in the world today, represents a major contribution to the study of language and power. It will be of interest to students throughout the social sciences and humanities, especially in sociology, politics, anthropology, linguistics, and literature.

Do social classes really exist? Is disinterested action really possible? What do the family, the church, and the intellectual world have in common? Can morality be founded on hypocrisy? What is the "subject" of action? In this new volume, one of France's foremost social thinkers of our time responds to these major questions and to others, thus tracing the outlines of a work that could be called "Pierre Bourdieu by himself." In these texts, the author tries to go to the essential, that is, the most elementary and fundamental, questions. He thereby explains the philosophical principles that have led to his social science research and the idea of the human that guides his choices there. With the lucidity allowed by retrospect, Bourdieu brings out the fundamental theories of his greatest books, notably "Outline of a Theory of Practice" and "The Logic of Practice" (Stanford, 1990), and, with an eye to the future, presents the first results of his most recent work on the state, the anthropological moorings of the economy, and male domination. Bourdieu's theory is both a philosophy of science dedicated to revealing the objective relations that shape and underpin social life, and a philosophy of action that takes account of agents' dispositions as well as the structured situations in which they act. This philosophy of action is condensed in a small number of key concepts--habitus, field, capital--and it is defined by the two-way relationship between the objective structures of social fields and the incorporated structures of the habitus. All in all, this book should be an indispensable introduction to Bourdieu's work, not only to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, political science, and philosophy, but throughout the social sciences and humanities generally.

This highly acclaimed work, in which Pierre Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world and offers a brilliant analysis of modern intellectual culture, is now available in paperback. The academy is shown to be not just a realm of dialogue and debate, but also a sphere of power in which reputations and careers are made, defended and destroyed.


Bourdieu constructs a map of the intellectual field in France and analyzes the forms of capital power, the lines of conflict and the patterns of change which characterize the system of higher education in France today.

Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of houses, to see that these abstract assumptions cannot explain what happens in reality. As Bourdieu shows, the market is constructed by the state, which can decide, for example, whether to promote private housing or collective provision. And the individuals involved in the transaction are immersed in symbolic constructions which constitute, in a strong sense, the value of houses, neighbourhoods and towns. The abstract and illusory nature of the assumptions of orthodox economic theory has been criticised by some economists, but Bourdieu argues that we must go further. Supply, demand, the market and even the buyer and seller are products of a process of social construction, and so-called 'economic' processes can be adequately described only by calling on sociological methods. Instead of seeing the two disciplines in antagonistic terms, it is time to recognize that sociology and economics are in fact part of a single discipline, the object of which is the analysis of social facts, of which economic transactions are in the end merely one aspect. This brilliant study by the most original sociologist of post-war France will be essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, economics, anthropology and related disciplines.

Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as "a combat sport." This comprehensive collection of his writings on politics and social science from the Algerian War of Independence in the early 1960s to the last text he published before his death bears out that this vision, far from being the product of a "turn" in the 1990s, was enduring throughout his life.

《遏止野火》作者布迪厄被称为“法国最后一位知识分子”，在西方知识界有着很大的影响。这两册论战文集（中译本合为一册，分上下篇），以“遏止野火”为名，向新自由主义宣战，尤其向新自由主义经济学及其实践宣战。这场斗争的实质是要“保卫社会”：保卫历来社会斗争赢取的成果。如今它们在“全球化”、“流动性”的名义下被系统性地拆毁；同时也是保卫对于“社会”的信仰——如今它们在新自由主义经济学的个人主义意识形态和方法论的攻击下岌岌可危。

布尔巴基学派是对现代数学影响巨大的数学家集团。它在本世纪30年代中期由法国一群年轻数学家结合而成。他们提出“数学结构”的观念，并用这种观点整理纯粹数学，写出了近四十卷数学原理。本书叙述了比尔巴基学派的思想来源，成长过程，以及第二次世界大战之后的繁荣昌盛乃至60年代末开始衰落的历史，并概况比尔巴基学派及其主要成员对数学的重大贡献，最后对数学结构作了简要的介绍

本书以法国希腊哲学学者、汉学家于连的有关中国思想研究为基础，用对话形式探讨了中国思想和从希腊传统发展而来的西方思想在沟通与交流方面的一些问题。如何看待异域的文化，为什么深入异域的思想文化，分析有别自身的他者不是为了比较优劣，而是为了更深入地反思自己的文化，这是西方研究中国和中国研究西方都应该思考的一个重要问题。远去是为了归来。

The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials.In this book, Didier Sornette boldly applies his varied experience in these areas to propose a simple, powerful, and general theory of how, why, and when stock markets crash. Most attempts to explain market failures seek to pinpoint triggering mechanisms that occur hours, days, or weeks before the collapse. Sornette proposes a radically different view: the underlying cause can be sought months and even years before the abrupt, catastrophic event in the build-up of cooperative speculation, which often translates into an accelerating rise of the market price, otherwise known as a "bubble." Anchoring his sophisticated, step-by-step analysis in leading-edge physical and statistical modeling techniques, he unearths remarkable insights and some predictions - among them, that the "end of the growth era" will occur around 2050.Sornette probes major historical precedents, from the decades-long "tulip mania" in the Netherlands that wilted suddenly in 1637 to the South Sea Bubble that ended with the first huge market crash in England in 1720, to the Great Crash of October 1929 and Black Monday in 1987, to cite just a few. He concludes that most explanations other than cooperative self-organization fail to account for the subtle bubbles by which the markets lay the groundwork for catastrophe. Any investor or investment professional who seeks a genuine understanding of looming financial disasters should read this book. Physicists, geologists, biologists, economists, and others will welcome "Why Stock Markets Crash" as a highly original "scientific tale," as Sornette aptly puts it, of the exciting and sometimes fearsome - but no longer quite so unfathomable - world of stock markets.

《記憶所繫之處(全套3冊不分售)》Les Lieux de memoire
這是一個法國之所以成為法國的歷史。
原本艾菲爾鐵塔只是一座平凡的建築物、普魯斯特原本被視為一個三流作家，七月十四日能不能算是法國國慶也被質疑。但在歷史的變動與解釋中，模糊的法國 形象逐漸成形，不只在法國人心中，甚至在全世界人的心中，艾菲爾鐵塔拔地而起，伴隨著馬賽曲的伴奏、瑪德蓮的香氣、藍白紅的照耀，也隨著環法自行車賽一台台單車在地圖上一再畫出法國疆域，如今我們所認識的「法國」才終於出品問世。換句話說，這不是一本告訴你艾菲爾鐵塔多高，或者瑪德蓮蛋糕如何製作的書；這是一本試圖告訴我們，在歷史迷霧中，今日法國如何出現。
「記憶所繫之處」（lieu de memoire）這個詞彙為法國史學大師皮耶諾哈（Pierre Nora）所創，他將之定義成：一種物質或非物質實體，經由人類或時間轉變，而成為一個社群的象徵性遺產。就我們當代人而言，艾菲爾鐵塔、馬賽曲、普魯斯特便是這樣的「記憶所繫之處」。但皮耶諾哈不是要再次強調這些觀光景點的美好，而是要藉由這些令人魂牽夢縈的所在，追溯其歷史，傳達那背後豐富眩目的多線故事，如何在歷史與記憶的糾纏過程中，塵埃落定，成為現在的模樣、成為人們朗朗上口的典故。
在學者的眼中，《記憶所繫之處》是一種影響深遠的歷史觀念，但它也同時是一種最精采的故事寫法。它在毫不與事實妥協的狀況下，將我們習以為常的觀念或地點，抽絲剝繭成千頭萬緒的離奇故事。例如，環法自行車賽如何在不同年代修改比賽路線，以符合不同年代的政治需求。普魯斯特對於法國小生活小日子的細緻描寫，如何曾經被視為墮落頹圮，而又翻案成法國最偉大的作品。這些充滿衝擊與張力的精采法國歷史，竟也同時是本世紀最偉大的史學著作。
本書原本共有三大卷，七大部，收錄一百三十多篇文章，編撰者皮耶諾哈本人與本書譯者戴麗娟兩人一同討論，選出九篇對於台灣讀者特別有意義的文章，希望能經由這些經典論述，為我們打開真正理解法國迷人文化的第一扇窗戶。
裝訂特色：本套書共三冊，選用法國國旗藍白紅三色作為封面底色，在書盒內依序排列成法國國旗。封面封底皆採用打凸設計，三冊分別打上：馬賽曲樂譜、艾菲爾鐵塔以及普魯斯特，運用法國為人熟知的文化象徵，表現法國文化的低調與細緻，更添經典收藏價值。
本譯作榮獲法國在台協會、法國國立圖書中心（Centre National du Livre）之翻譯與出版獎助
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「作為一部後民族主義的民族史傑作，《記憶所繫之處》中文選譯本的問世，無疑將會為缺乏理論意識的臺灣史學界帶來衝擊與啟示。」－吳叡人（芝加哥大學政治學博士，中央研究院臺灣史研究所副研究員）
各方好評
「一本具有權威的鉅作，定義了法國的樣貌。」《泰晤士報文學副刊》
「一部非凡的成就……（書中收錄的文章）如鑽石般閃爍。」《新共和雜誌》
「《記憶所繫之處》的出版，讓我們終於能擁有為了解析、詮釋和頌揚法國魅力及其歷史最重要、最具野心的作品。書中收錄的長篇論文，詳細又發人省思，讓讀者獲得愉快的閱讀經驗。」《洛杉磯時報週日書評》
「這本迷人又獨特的作品，幾乎談論了法國的所有事物，從法國國歌「馬賽曲」的由來，到聖女貞德在法國集體記憶中如何改變她的地位，都是談論的對象。甚至連巴黎鐵塔也閃耀出令人驚奇的新面貌。」《芝加哥論壇報》

《记忆所系之处》（Les lieux de memoire）出版于1984至1992年间，全套共3卷7册，在主编诺哈（Pierre Nora）教授的规划与邀约下，汇集了上百位法国当代一流学者的研究，收录135篇长文、5千多页文字，可谓晚近30年来法国史领域最受瞩目的一部着作。第一卷以“共和国”（La Republique）为题，虽仅有一册， 1984年出版后却立即引起法国学界热烈讨论，被视为当代关於法国史书写最具原创性的尝试。这样的回响也促成后续两卷的出版，分别是“国族”（La Nation）、“复数法兰西”（Les France）各3册，在1992年底正式出版完毕，整套书很快地被视为经典。

"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work."
-Oliver Sacks, M.D.
The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astounding feat it is. How can a few black marks on white paper evoke an entire universe of meanings? It's even more amazing when we consider that we read using a primate brain that evolved to serve an entirely different purpose. In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene explores every aspect of this human invention, from its origins to its neural underpinnings. A world authority on the subject, Dehaene reveals the hidden logic of spelling, describes pioneering research on hiw we process languages, and takes us into a new appreciation of the brain and its wondrous capacity to adapt.