Abstract
Abstract Following the model developed by Michael Burawoy in Bourdieu meets Marxism, the purpose of this paper is to suggest an additional dialogue between the French sociologist and the Soviet jurist Pachukanis. Our intention is to demonstrate that many of the intuitions presented in The Force of Law were actually anticipated by the author of General Theory of Law and Marxism. We argue that these theoretical frameworks are not only complementarity bur also offers fruitful possibilities for empirical investigation in the legal field.
Highlights
The central part of our argument was thought as a complementary development of the work developed in Bourdieu meets Marxism (BURAWOY, 2010)
At the end of the considerations about Bourdieu's dialogues with the Marxist tradition, following the exposition method of the dialogues imagined by Burawoy, we propose an additional conversation between Bourdieu and the Soviet jurist, Evguéni Pachukanis (2017), centered on the understanding of the juridical moment
Throughout Bourdieu’s work, Marxism was a sort of chosen enemy and hidden companion, in the sense that the French sociologist felt the need to differentiate himself from the structuralism currents of the Marxism, that held the hegemony of the French intellectual field at his time, trying to reposition his relational sociology and its symbolic materialism as an overcoming of economist Marxian currents, without redounding in the subjectivist theories of rational choice
Summary
The central part of our argument was thought as a complementary development of the work developed in Bourdieu meets Marxism (BURAWOY, 2010). We will try to demonstrate, through direct quotations, the validity of one of our main arguments, namely: how, more often than not, the Bourdieusian critique is specific and appropriate only to a variant of Marxism, which had been hegemonic in France at the time of his intellectual formation, the author sought to broaden it in order to reach the Marxist tradition as a whole During this exercise, we will highlight three of Borudieu most important works: Distinction (BOURDIEU, 2007), because it is his most renowned academic work, Pascalian Meditations (BOURDIEU, 2001) and On the State (BOURDIEU, 2014), due to represent his mature work, where the French sociologist seeks to differentiate his historical method from the one he presents as Marxist
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