10 must-read nonfiction books like Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture by Pierre Bourdieu

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Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture

By: Pierre Bourdieu

4.10

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Si l’école aime à proclamer sa fonction d’instrument démocratique de la mobilité sociale, elle a au…

"Pour les fils de paysans, d'ouvriers, d'employés ou de petits commerçants, l'acquisition de la culture scolaire est acculturation."

-Pierre Bourdieu, Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture

"Pour les fils de paysans, d'ouvriers, d'employés ou de petits commerçants, l'acquisition de la culture scolaire est acculturation."

-Pierre Bourdieu, Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture

"en substituant au fait la protestation contre le fait, ne s'efforce-t-on pas, le plus souvent avec succès, de se persuader qu'un groupe capable de protester contre son propre privilège n'est pas un groupe privilégié ?"

-Pierre Bourdieu, Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture

"en substituant au fait la protestation contre le fait, ne s'efforce-t-on pas, le plus souvent avec succès, de se persuader qu'un groupe capable de protester contre son propre privilège n'est pas un groupe privilégié ?"

-Pierre Bourdieu, Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture by Pierre Bourdieu , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

By: Gilles Deleuze , Robert Hurley

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • france
  • nonfiction
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2. The Human Condition

By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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3. The Ravishing of Lol Stein

By: Marguerite Duras , None , Diệp Anh

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life--and a voyeur… read more

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  • france
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4. Bérénice

By: Jean Racine

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Berenice, au centre de l'oeuvre de son auteur, en 1670, est une piece singuliere dans la production… read more

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  • france
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5. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
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6. Le Cid

By: Pierre Corneille

3.59

Format: 188 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Dans une Espagne médiévale, héroïque, éclatante, deux jeunes gens se déchirent et s'adorent. Pour l… read more

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  • france
  • school
"Va, je ne te hais point."

-Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

"Dans le bonheur d'autrui je cherche mon bonheur"

-Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

"Czując cudownie w sobie rozdwojoną duszę Raz nim gardzę, drugi raz wzdychać za nim muszę."

-Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

"Je suis jeune, il est vrai mais aux âmes bien nées La valeur n'attend pas le nombre des années"

-Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

7. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more

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8. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

9. Wages, Price and Profit

By: Karl Marx

3.27

Format: 64 pages,

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10. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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  • france
"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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11. Lost Illusions

By: Honoré de Balzac , Ellen Marriage , George Saintsbury

4.16

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his … read more

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  • france
"For avarice begins where poverty ends."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

"ci sono uomini-quercia, io sono forse solo un arbusto elegante, e ho la pretesa di essere un cedro."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

"Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

"căci excesele de orice soi împing trupul pe calea spre care e predispus din naştere: ca şi învăţătura multă, beţia îl îngraşă pe cel gras şi îl slăbeşte pe cel slab."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

12. Learning to Labor

By: None

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hailed by the New Society as the best book on male working class youth, this classic work, first pu… read more

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13. Cyrano de Bergerac

By: Edmond Rostand , Lowell Bair , Eteel Lawson

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever capt… read more

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14. Twilight of the Idols

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more

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15. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

By: Mathias Énard

3.86

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constan… read more

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  • france
"We all ape God in His absence."

-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

"Calligraphies are our images, Maestro, images of our faith."

-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

"Entscheide dich für mich und meine erloschenen Geschichten."

-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

"How many works of art will there have to be to put beauty into the world?"

-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

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16. Il fascismo eterno

By: Umberto Eco

4.33

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

“Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"L’Ur-Fascismo si basa su un “populismo qualitativo"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai."

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"It would be so much easier for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares". Life is not that …"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Fu il fascismo italiano a convincere molti leader liberali europei che il nuovo regime stesse attuando interessanti riforme sociali in grado di fornire un’alternativa moderatamente rivoluzionaria all…"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

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17. Rester barbare

By: Louisa Yousfi

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Je sens que j’ai tellement de choses à dire qu’il vaut mieux que je ne sois pas trop cultivé. Il f… read more

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  • politics
  • france
  • nonfiction
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18. On ne naît pas mec

By: Daisy Letourneur

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Pourquoi parler encore des mecs ? Quand tout se passe comme si les humains étaient hommes par défau… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
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19. Servir les riches

By: Alizée Delpierre

4.42

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Derrière les façades de luxueux immeubles parisiens, les immenses grilles de châteaux, les baies vi… read more

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  • politics
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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20. Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture

By: Pierre Bourdieu

4.10

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Si l’école aime à proclamer sa fonction d’instrument démocratique de la mobilité sociale, elle a au… read more

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  • cultural
  • social science
  • school
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
"Pour les fils de paysans, d'ouvriers, d'employés ou de petits commerçants, l'acquisition de la culture scolaire est acculturation."

-Pierre Bourdieu, Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture

"en substituant au fait la protestation contre le fait, ne s'efforce-t-on pas, le plus souvent avec succès, de se persuader qu'un groupe capable de protester contre son propre privilège n'est pas un g…"

-Pierre Bourdieu, Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture

"Les inégalités devant la culture ne sont nulle part aussi marquées que dans le domaine où, en l'absence d'un enseignement organisé, les comportements culturels obéissent aux déterminismes sociaux plu…"

-Pierre Bourdieu, Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture

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21. Pour la sociologie

By: Bernard Lahire

3.87

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Depuis plusieurs décennies, à gauche comme à droite, la sociologie est régulièrement accusée d'excu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology

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3.66

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