Political interventions: social science and political action

Editors' Note

Introduction: A Specific Kind Of Political Commitment

1958-1962: Political Commitment During A War Of Liberation

1961-1963

1. Colonial War and Revolutionary Consciousness

Revolution in the revolution

From revolutionary war to revolution

A retrospective on the Algerian experience

My feelings about Sartre

1964-1970

2. Education and Domination

Jacobin ideology

'I see May 1968 as having two faces...'

Appeal for the organization of a general assembly of teaching and research

Some indicators for a policy of democratization

A look back at the reception of The Inheritors and Reproduction in Education

1971-1980

3. Against the Science of Political Dispossession

The doxosophists

Public opinion

Intellectuals and social struggle

Giving voice to the voiceless

Esprit magazine and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology

Blessed are the poor in spirit

4. Dominant Ideology and Scientific Autonomy

Declaration of intent, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales I, January 1975

Scientific method and the social hierarchy of objects

Declaration of intent, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 5/6, November 1975

'Intelligence is the key virtue of the modern leader...'

Encyclopaedia of accepted ideas and commonplaces used in neutral spaces

The royal science and the fatalism of probability

'And if we actually spoke about Afghanistan...'

The culture of the rich

The anatomy of taste

1970-1980: political commitment and ideological shift

1981-1986

5. Lay People and Professionals in Politics

'Notice to the people'

Politics belongs to them

'Missed opportunities: after 1936 and 1956, 1981?'

Rediscovering the left's libertarian tradition

Intellectuals and established powers

Revealing the wellsprings of power

All racism is essentialism

On Michel Foucault

1984-1990

6. Education and Education Policy

The naked emperors of the university

Proposals for the future of education

Twenty years before the College de France report

The College de France report. Pierre Bourdieu explains

A refusal to be cannon-fodder for the bosses

Principles for a discussion of the contents of education

Letter to the lyceens of Les Mureaux

1988-1995

7. Disenchantment with Politics, and a Realpolitik of Reason

Civic virtue

Basing criticism on a knowledge of the social world

Our wretched state

8. For Struggles on a European Scale

For an international of intellectuals

History rises in the east

The political language of conservative revolutions

Mental walls

Intellectual responsibilities

How to escape the circle of fear?

Declaration of intent, Liber 25, 1995

In the service of historical forms of universality

The object of a writers' parliament

9. Towards a Collective Intellectual

An example of 'rational demagogy' in education

A trompe l'oeil university reform

One problem can be hidden by another

Stay the hands of the murderers!

For a party of civil peace

Failing to assist an endangered person

M. Pasqua, his adviser, and foreigners

No ghettoizing of Algeria!

Reveal and divulge the repressed

1995-2001

10. Supporting Social Struggles

A look back at the December 1995 strikes

Appeal for a general assembly of the social movement

In support of the march for homosexual visibility

Combat state xenophobia

Enough state racism!

Neoliberalism as conservative revolution

An upsurge of action by the unemployed

For a left that is left

An age of restoration

One minister doesn't make a summer

The contemporary relevance of Karl Kraus

11. The Media in the Service of Conservative Revolution

Liberation, twenty years on

Questions of words

From miscellany to a matter of state

The misery of the media

Questions about a misunderstanding

Can television criticize television?

Questions to the real masters of the world

12. Resisting the Liberal Counter-Revolution

Open letter to the members of the UN mission to Algeria

European appeal for a just and lasting peace in the Balkans

For an Austria in the forefront of Europe

Manifesto for a general assembly of the European social movement

The new planetary vulgate

Open letter to the director-general of UNESCO on the threats posed by the GATT agreement

Social Europe is hanging fire

For a real mobilization of organized forces

For a permanent organization of resistance to the new world order

Scholars and the social movement

How to effectively establish the critical attitude

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