Open AccessPraxis und Form
Author(s) -
Peter Sreckeisen
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v43i172.259
Subject(s) - praxis , capitalism , sociology , historical materialism , neoclassical economics , epistemology , materialism , fetishism , social theory , capital (architecture) , positive economics , social science , marxist philosophy , economics , philosophy , politics , political science , law , archaeology , history , anthropology
It makes sense to combine Marx and Bourdieu in order to analyze capitalism and criticize economics. Whereas Marx reveals the crucial importance of social forms and capital fetishism, Bourdieu’s theory of practice serves as theoretical antidote to rational choice theory in economics and other social sciences. Furthermore Bourdieu convincingly criticizes Marxism for its inability to overcome theoretical oppositions like idealism vs. materialism. On the other hand Bourdieu’s theory of capital contributes to the proliferation of capital concepts in social science and contains some degree of complicity with economic imperialism that can be questioned by Marxian theory.