'Not a Fish in Water': Close Colleague of Bourdieu Reflects on His Influence

By SCOTT McLEMEE

Pierre Bourdieu, one of the "master thinkers" shaping French intellectual life, died in Paris in late January,

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following a struggle with cancer. A professor at the Collège de France, Bourdieu, 71, was among the leading sociologists of his generation.

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