Pierre Bourdieu and cultural theory : critical investigations

Met lit. opg. - Met reg. Description of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture and habitus : a systematic reading of his assessment of the role of `cultural capital' in the production and consumption of symbolic goods. Survey of the influences of Marx, Luk cs, Goldmann, Benjamin and Foucault on the theories of Bourdieu. Focus on the nature of capitalist modernity, the emergence of bohemia and the invention of the artist.