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Created: January 24, 2002
Latest Update: January 25, 2002
Faculty:
jeannecurran@habermas.org
Olivier at tapcourse@yahoo.com
takata@uwp.edu

Pierre Bourdieu, Renowned French Sociologist
Died in Paris, January 23, 2002. Photo and Story: Le Monde.

On Tursday, January 24, 2002, this series of posts went up on PSN:

From: "Martin Wetz"
Subject: Re: Pierre Bourdieu has died

bourdieu's death is dreadful.
maybe comparable to the death of john lennon or miles davis or joan miro - people representing a historical moment and a movement towards a utopian society, and now there seems to be no one who could continue what they began.

martin

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Original Message from Lauren Langman

Von: psn-owner@csf.colorado.edu
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2002 18:14
An: psn@csf.colorado.edu
Betreff: Pierre Bourdieu has died

Rough translation for those who don't read French....

PB died Wednesday @ 11 of cancer at St Antoine Hospital in Paris. He was 71. He was well know internationally and his work widely discussed dealing with late modernity. He also supported (progressive) social movements.

The previous text then notes his appointments.

I did meet him once, very impressive guy. Much of my own work can be seen as locating the habitus in a capitalist context/how everday practices reproduce a social order based on domination/exploitation.

Sadly Lauren

From Le Monde:

Pierre Bourdieu est mort, mercredi, à 23 heures, à l'hôpital Saint-Antoine de Paris. Atteint d'un cancer, il était âgé de 71 ans. Internationalement reconnue et discutée, son oeuvre a fondé, d'un point de vue académique, une école de sociologie critique de la modernité qui s'est accompagnée, ces dernières années, d'un engagement de plus en plus prononcé en faveur des mouvements sociaux.

On Friday, January 25, 2002, CyberBrook posted at PSN:

Subject: Pierre Bourdieu

from a friend...

Thanks for the very sad news. I'm sure I told you the story of him handing out twenty dollar bills to my homeless guys when [he] came to the site. When Philippe [Bourgeois], Loic [Wacquant], and I took him to the Mission [in SF] to look at the murals on Bally St. a little Chicano boy followed him around like he was his Grandfather. He was a very sweet man....

Dear All, I am once again the bearer of sad news. Pierre Bourdieu died last night at 10.30p.m. of multiple cancers. Loic has been at his bedside for the last month and was with him to the end. On behalf of all of us at Berkeley I am sending Loic our deepest condolences. This is an enormous loss for sociology, and especially for Berkeley sociology. Love, Michael.

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