Jeannine Verdès-Leroux

Jeannine Verd è s-Leroux, PhD, is a researcher at the (French) National Center for Sociological Research in Paris, home to Bourdieu’s closest collaborators and most vehement opponents. Her earlier works have analyzed the role of the intellectual in the Communist Party, the Far Left, and the Far Right. She set out to write a short article criticizing Pierre Bourdieu’s political grandstanding – but, whether you are for him or against him, he cannot be dismissed in just a few words!