Episode 137: Bourdieu on the Tastes of Social Classes (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: Episode 137: Bourdieu on the Tastes of Social Classes (Part Two)
• Website: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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• Duration: 01:14:53
• Published: 2016-04-18 14:00

Continuing on Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1979) with guest rock star Tim Quirk. More on Bourdieu's survey of musical tastes: People use tastes to distinguish themselves and assert social superiority. The Kantian, upper-class, art-for-art's-sake paradigm of taste rules out joining in a mosh pit, but are the Kantian and social types of artistic abandon really so distinct?