The Point Of My Work

I Would Simply Ask Why So Many Critics, So Many Writers, So Many Philosophers Take Such Satisfaction In Professing That The Experience Of A Work Of Art Is Ineffable, That It Escapes By Definition All Rational Understanding; Why Are They So Eager To Concede Without A Struggle The Defeat Of Knowledge; And Where Does Their Irrepressible Need To Belittle Rational Understanding Come From, This Rage To Affirm The Irreducibility Of The Work Of Art, Or, To Use A More Suitable Word, Its Transcendence.

The Function Of Sociology, As Of Every Science, Is To Reveal That Which Is Hidden.

Symbolic Violence Is Violence Wielded With Tacit Complicity Between Its Victims And Its Agents, Insofar As Both Remain Unconscious Of Submitting To Or Wielding It.

I Often Say That Sociology Is A Martial Art, A Means Of Self-defense. Basically, You Use It To Defend Yourself, Without Having The Right To Use It For Unfair Attacks.

Only In Imaginary Experience (in The Folk Tale, For Example), Which Neutralizes The Sense Of Social Realities, Does The Social World Take The Form Of A Universe Of Possibles Equally Possible For Any Possible Subject.