Philippe Corcuff

Philippe Corcuff, born in 1960, is a French academic, lecturer in political science at the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon since October 1992 and member of the CERLIS laboratory (Centre de Recherche sur les Liens Sociaux, Université Paris Descartes / CNRS) since October 2003. Politically committed to the left, he defines himself as an “anti-globalization and libertarian activist”.[1]

Philippe Corcuff
BornApril 15th 1960
Oran (Algeria)
NationalityFrench
EducationInstitut de Journalisme Bordeaux Aquitaine ; School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences
OccupationPolitical commentator, sociologist
EmployerLyon Institute of Political Studies ; Charlie Hebdo
Political partySocialist Party ; Revolutionary Comunist League ; New Anticapitalist Party ; The Greens ; Citizen's Movement ; Anarchist Federation

Sociologically speaking, he had started in study with a socio-ethnographic approach, within the scope of his thesis, the building of social groups, through railroaders’ trade unionism and, wider, the workers' movement. He offers then a reading of the Pierre Bourdieu’s critical sociology, emphasizing on the “post-marxist” aspect of his social criticism, while pointing several contradictions and inconsistencies out (in the treatment of the plurality of social referents working on each individual, in the overevaluation of the weight of the dominations and in the underevaluation of the dominated’s capacity to resist, etc.). He made this very especially in the book Bourdieu Autrement (non-translated, in English : “Bourdieu, differently”).[2]

Selected works
  • Corcuff, Philippe. Les nouvelles sociologies. Armand Colin, 2011.
  • Corcuff, Philippe. As novas sociologias-Construçoes da realidad social. 2001.
  • Corcuff, Philippe. La société de verre: pour une éthique de la fragilité. Armand Colin, 2002.
  • Corcuff, Philippe, and François de Singly. "Les Nouvelles Sociologies Constructions de la Réalité Sociale." (1995).
  • Corcuff, Philippe. Bourdieu autrement. Fragilités d'un sociologue de combat. 2003.
  • Blog on the Mediapart website (in French)
  • List of the Philippe Corcuff's publications on the website of its research laboratory, the CERLIS (in French)

References
  1. Philippe Corcuff, "Galaxie altermondialiste et émancipation au XXIe siècle : l'hypothèse d'une social-démocratie libertaire" (in French), Mediapart", 20 août 2008
  2. Daniel Frandji, "Bourdieu autrement. Fragilités d'un sociologue de combat de Philippe Corcuff, 2003, Paris, Textuel, collection La Discorde, 143 pages", Education et sociétés, 2003/2 (n° 12), p. 159-162


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