Homo Academicus

Name: Homo Academicus
ISBN: 9787532191079

皮埃尔·布尔Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House2024

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Word count: 266K words
Chapters: 13
Series: Boya Humanities Series
ISBN: 9787532191079

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Summary

Homo Academicus is a 1984 major work by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Drawing on a large body of empirical data gathered around the period of upheaval in French academia around 1968, Bourdieu uses statistics and correspondence analysis of faculty in the faculties of medicine, law, letters, and the natural sciences to map the different positions they occupy in the academic field. In his view, the university is not a pure space devoted only to knowledge and truth but a social field in which scholars compete for resources, prestige, positions, and discursive authority; social origin, educational background, mentors, and social networks all affect whether one can gain academic influence and institutional standing. Bourdieu thereby proposes analytical concepts such as 'semi-institutional power' and 'everyone against everyone,' explaining how academic power operates and reproduces itself, and linking academic hierarchies to broader class structures. The book also traces the 'career trajectories' of French thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan to show how scholars maneuver within the system. It includes numerous charts and appendices, as well as a 'Postscript: Twenty Years Later,' and is an important text for understanding the French academic system, academic history, and class reproduction.

Editor's review

布迪厄一生写过不少“不好读”的书，《学术人》却少见地带上了自我解剖的锐度：他把手术刀对准自己所属的群体，也就是大学教授。读者会看到，院系之间的明争暗斗、评审委员会里的相互抬举、师门与人脉的隐形作用，并不来自个人品格的好坏，而来自场域的结构性压力。拜德雅这个简体中文版由王睿琦、钟牧辰两位法国文学与思想研究者译出，保留了原书的图表、附录与《后记：二十年后》，读者可以据此了解布迪厄的研究方法：用统计与对应分析把“文人圈子的八卦”做成可核查的社会科学。对正在写论文、投期刊、评职称的人来说，这本书的价值大概是最能起到“清醒剂”作用的：它不教你怎么赢，而是让你看清牌桌是怎么摆的。翻译与长句处理上仍有可商榷之处，阅读时需要耐心，但作为中文世界目前唯一通行的完整译本，它值得放在案头反复翻看。

Who it's for

A good fit for

社会学、教育学、人类学等专业的研究生与青年教师
正在经历论文发表、职称评审压力的高校“青椒”
对法国思想史以及福柯、德里达一代学人感兴趣的一般读者
关注教育不平等与阶层再生产议题的政策研究者

Not a good fit for

希望读到轻松学术八卦或名人轶事的闲读者
完全没有社会学基础、第一次接触布迪厄的入门读者

Reading tips

先读《总序》与第1章，弄清布迪厄的“场域”“资本”概念，再进入统计部分。
第3、4章图表密集，可对照附录2、附录4的说明去读，不要跳过图表直接看结论。
读完正文后再读《后记：二十年后》，回看作者本人如何反思这本书的方法与局限。
若觉得译文拗口，可参考台版李沅洳译本或英文版对照阅读关键段落。

About the publisher

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House China · Founded in 1952

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House takes modern and contemporary Chinese literature and folk literature as important publishing directions, while also covering social novels, classic works, and prose and miscellaneous writings, and has long introduced foreign literature and philosophical works. Its books include masterpieces such as Lao She's Teahouse and Camel Xiangzi, Lu Xun's Call to Arms and Wandering and Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, and Xiao Hong's Tales of Hulan River, as well as translations such as Gilles Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Pillars of the Earth trilogy. Its authors include Lao She, Lu Xun, Xiao Hong, Zhou Ying, Liu Yuyu, and Jiang Yi, reflecting a publishing character that balances original literature, academic translation, and general reading.

List of Charts and Tables
General Preface | Reclaiming the Boya Humanities
1 A 'Book to Be Burned'?
2 The Conflict of the Faculties
3 Types of Capital and Forms of Power
4 Defense of the Group and Breaking of the Balance
5 The Critical Moment
Appendix 1: Sources of Research Data
Appendix 2: Changes in Faculty Morphology [Tables 1(a, b, c)], Changes in Disciplinary Morphology [Tables 2(a, b)]
Appendix 3: The French Intellectual Hit Parade, or Who Judges the Legitimacy of the Jury?
Appendix 4: Correspondence Analysis
Postscript: Twenty Years Later
Index

FAQ

这本书和《不发表，就出局》是同一本吗？

不是。网上有文章把豆瓣9.2分安在《不发表，就出局》（李连江著）头上，那是另一本讲论文写作与发表经验的书。《学术人》是布迪厄1984年的社会学专著，简体中文版2024年11月由上海文艺出版社出版。

需要先懂布迪厄的理论才能读吗？

最好有一点基础，先了解“场域”“习性”“文化资本”三个概念会顺畅很多。完全没有基础也可以读，但建议配合导读或先看他更通俗的《区分》《继承人》。

简体中文版和台版有什么不同？

台版《学术人》为时报文化2019年版，译者李沅洳；简体版由王睿琦、钟牧辰翻译，收入“拜德雅·人文丛书”，有总序，并收录四篇附录与《后记：二十年后》。两者译文风格不同，可互为参照。

书里的数据是不是太老了？

主体数据来自1968年前后的法国，但布迪厄的分析对象是学术场域的运作逻辑而非具体数字。今天读它，重点在于理解评审、师承与院系权力关系，而非援引法国当年的统计结果。

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皮埃尔·布尔 Author

Pierre Boulle was a French writer best known for two widely read novels that differ greatly in subject: The Bridge on the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes. The former is set against war and focuses on human situations and choices in extreme circumstances; the latter uses a science-fiction premise to explore questions about society and human nature. The two works are classified respectively under foreign literature and science fiction, and both were adapted into films, extending their influence to a broader readership and audience. Public information about his life is limited: his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not reliably recorded in the available material, so no inferences are made here. Judging only from the two representative works in the collection, Boulle's writing spans war narrative and science-fiction fable, showing a wide range of subjects, and his works often use concrete plots to carry observations about people and society, which is one reason he continues to be read by Chinese readers.