Les interventions du sociologue Pierre Bourdieu dans l'espace public datent du début des années 60, à propos de la guerre d'Algérie. Dès lors, il poursuit une réflexion sur les conditions sociales de possibilité de son engagement politique. Ce recueil montre une articulation entre recherche scientifique et intervention politique ; le travail de conversion des pulsions sociales en impulsions critiques. Science sociale et militantisme peuvent être conçus comme les deux faces d'un même travail d'analyse, de décryptage et de critique de la (...) réalité sociale pour aider à sa transformation. (shrink)

This paper is the product of a roundtable discussion held at the international conference Horizons of Engagement: Eternalizing Bourdieu, organized by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of Belgrade, Serbia, the Centre for Advanced Studies of The University of Rijeka, Croatia, the?cole Normale Sup?rieure of Paris, France, and the French Institute in Serbia. The event was planned on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of one of the world?s leading sociologists - Pierre Bourdieu. The greatest indicator (...) of the scope of Bourdieu?s influence is the fact that he has become the world?s most cited sociologist, ahead of?mile Durkheim, and the world?s second most cited author in social sciences and the humanities, after Michel Foucault and ahead of Jacques Derrida. As part of this discussion, we address the subject of?Bourdieu and Politics?, politics - broadly constructed. We evoke Pierre Bourdieu?s involvement in public affairs during the 1990s, while taking into account the concept of the collective intellectual that Bourdieu introduced into social sciences by giving it a specific meaning. (shrink)