French philosophy is famous for radical theory in the service of progressive social causes. If Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire propelled this tradition in the 18th century (inspiring the French ...

Pierre Bourdieu, an internationally renowned French sociologist and philosopher who ventured outside the academic world to join protest movements, has died of cancer in Paris, his publisher said. He ...

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Yet Le Monde readers not only knew Bourdieu’s name; they knew his ideas. Bourdieu was such a star within the intellectual firmament of French society that his passing was of interest to all sorts of ...

following a struggle with cancer. A professor at the Collège de France, Mr. Bourdieu was among the leading sociologists of his generation. His models of “habitus” and “cultural capital” sought to ...