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

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    “There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one’s own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.”
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