Philippe Corcuff

Philippe Corcuff
Born	April 15th 1960 Oran (Algeria)
Nationality	French
Education	Institut de Journalisme Bordeaux Aquitaine ;
Occupation	Political commentator, sociologist
Employer	Lyon Institute of Political Studies ; Charlie Hebdo
Political party	Socialist Party ; Revolutionary Communist League ; New Anticapitalist Party ; The Greens ;  ; Anarchist Federation

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]

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 out several contradictions and inconsistencies. He did so 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.

External links[]

• 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)

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