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Review: Outline of a Theory of Practice

User Review  - Justin Evans - Goodreads

The best thing about this book is the blurb from the Times Higher Ed Supplement: "OTP can be highly recommended as a complex and often beautifully written piece of philosophical literature ... Read full review

Review: Outline of a Theory of Practice

User Review  - Jeffrey Towey - Goodreads

I keep going back to this book because it takes the Wittgensteinian line of representing philosophy as an intellectual error - but the catch is, as Aristotle observed, even those who attack philosophy are doing philosophy! Read full review

Review: Outline of a Theory of Practice

User Review  - Jeff Culver - Goodreads

Plan on averaging about 4 pages an hour. Read full review

Review: Outline of a Theory of Practice

User Review  - Mark Dellenbaugh - Goodreads

"Almost comically obtuse at time (in the great French postmodern tradition!) but this work does a good job introducing some key concepts in social anthropology such as ""doxa.""" Read full review

Review: Outline of a Theory of Practice

User Review  - phatic - Goodreads

Mon dieu, it's Bourdieu! "The logical relations constructed by the anthropologist is opposed to "practical" relationships -- practical because continually practiced, kept up, and cultivated -- in the ... Read full review

Review: Outline of a Theory of Practice

User Review  - Alex - Goodreads

In your heart you know he's right. "Hello, I'm Pierre. It looks like you want to solve all the problems and problematic dichotomies that have continually been plaguing the human sciences. May I assist ... Read full review

Review: Outline of a Theory of Practice

User Review  - nell - Goodreads

i hear its better in french. and if i had time to outline every sentence perhaps it would be easier to follow. that said, how can one not love structuring structures? Read full review

Review: Outline of a Theory of Practice

User Review  - Ty - Goodreads

I found this one particularly dry but none the less brought up many important things to keep in mind when conducting ethnographical studies. Read full review

Review: Outline of a Theory of Practice

User Review  - Amber - Goodreads

This is the last book of the summer for Art Theory Summer Camp. I would not call this an easy read, but Bourdieu provides an excellent tool kit for looking at the assumptions we all have when asking questions and how the question itself reveal our bias. Read full review

Review: Outline of a Theory of Practice

User Review  - Beth - Goodreads

I have already read this, but it was for school, and I would like to read it again (and absorb more.) Read full review

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