Hello there, When I was scrolling through insta, I constantly had recommendation for Pierre Bourdieu, especially in regard to academia and the markers of one’s social class. So, I wanted to ask:
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Do you think Bourdieu’s work is valuable for a Marxist-Leninist in academia? Which books would of him you recommend?
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I also had recommendations for Adorno and Said. What do you think about them?
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And of course, I wanted to ask you all about your thoughts on Umberto’s Ecco’s work?
Also, I feel like books have recently gotten more expensive, I do not think its just because of inflation. It feels to me like they are trying to make books more inaccessible again.
Anyways you can add more recommendations below.
Said is not a resource to understand the “East” he just criticize the “evil”, “backward”, “weak” “East”. So, he’s falling the trap to demonize the West and very anti-Marxist. His family were partners of colonial forces. He’s only good in anti-imperialist action but his ideas to understand the West or the East is not worth to read. You can read more about Edward Said critique from marxist scholar Aijaz Ahmad.
Adorno and Frankfurt school in general are bought by the CIA and their ideas only leads to a pessimist future. But, some Adorno’s work worth to read like Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life and Culture industry. So, read his sociological works and avoid from this assumptions about socialism and future.
Bourdieu is a revisionist but a good scholar to understand current politics and bourgeoisie class. Again, read his sociological works and ignore his marxist-socialist ideas.
I haven’t read enough Ecco’s work but his The Name of the Rose novel was good.
Thank you do you know if “homo Academicus” is part of his sociological analysis or not?
Yeah and as for Eccos “the name of the rose” I think there even was a movie adaptation for it
Yes. One of the core parts of his analysis.