Between the End of Real Socialism and the Crisis of Capitalism: A bourdieusian Academic Experience

Abstract

This article develops a self-objectivation focused on the significance of intellectual fields and sub-fields in Spanish academia. The author richly documents his stay in France, dealing throughout the paper with many sociological issues: politically engaged research, Marxism, international mobility, economic crises, the linkage between sociology and philosophy. This self-analysis gives self- objectivation a political bend: such activity should involve entering proactively into the civil sphere, taking a politically committed stance.