Pierre Bourdieu/bourdieu%e2%80%99s Theory of Power and Practice

Famous quotes containing the words theory, power and/or practice:

    “No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”
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    “The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)