Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being

“Ghassan Hage offers an enlightened and lucid rereading of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory. With conceptual clarity, Hage shows that Bourdieu’s dual insistence on both the empirical and the philosophical, his emphasis to take seriously their entanglement is very productive and generative. A brilliant book.” - Françoise Vergès, author of Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism “Among the innumerable studies on Pierre Bourdieu’s work, Ghassan Hage’s essay stands out as a personal inquiry into unexplored tracks. Extracting unexpected gems from the French sociologist’s empirically grounded political philosophy, it is a thoughtful intellectual enterprise by one of the most original anthropologists of our time.” - Didier Fassin, Professor at the Collège de France and the Institute for Advanced Study

Ghassan Hage is Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne and the author of several books, including The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism and The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World.