Ghassan Hage is Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne and the author of several books, including The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism and The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World.
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Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Political Economy of Being . . . and How to Analyze It 1 1. Social Efficiency and Social Complicity 20 2. Structure, Capacity, and Dispositionality 41 3. On the Production and Distribution of the Meaningful Life 62 4. The Means and Ends of Recognition 80 5. The Social Physics of Existential Mobility 92 Conclusion: Viability and the Politics of Existential Ecologies 113 Notes 133 Bibliography 149 Index 161
"Ghassan Hage offers an enlightened and lucid rereading of Pierre Bourdieu's theory. With conceptual clarity, Hage shows that Bourdieu's dual insistence on both the empirical and the philosophical, his emphasis to take seriously their entanglement is very productive and generative. A brilliant book." - Francoise Verges, author of Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism "Among the innumerable studies on Pierre Bourdieu's work, Ghassan Hage's essay stands out as a personal inquiry into unexplored tracks. Extracting unexpected gems from the French sociologist's empirically grounded political philosophy, it is a thoughtful intellectual enterprise by one of the most original anthropologists of our time." - Didier Fassin, Professor at the College de France and the Institute for Advanced Study