The field of fields. The state according to pierre bourdieu

Abstract

A book published in 2012 included the publication of the lecture course on the State delivered by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France. The course was given at a time when Bourdieu's work had reached full maturity, and it completed, at the most generic level of significance -in the "geometral of all perspectives"-the analytical potential opened up by the main categories he used to approach the social world: habitus, field and, above all, capital or symbolic power, the true core of uncontested legitimacy and of the omnipresent domination that the state has acquired in the contemporary world.