New Left Review I/227, January-February 1998
Pierre Bourdieu
A Reasoned Utopia and Economic Fatalism
To the town of Ludwigshafen, its mayor, Mr Wolfgang Schulte, and the Ernst Bloch Institute, my warmest thanks for the honour I have been awarded, which associates my own name with that of one of the German philosophers whom I most admire. [1] My thanks also to Mr Ulrich Beck for the very generous address he has just given. He leads me to think that we may, in the near future, see the utopia of a European intellectual collective, which I have long advocated, brought into being. My only criticism of this eulogy is that it is really too generous, especially in the way it attributed to my individual personality alone a number of properties or qualities which are also the product of social conditions.
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