This Critical Reader provides a new perspective on the work of France?s foremost social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, by examining its philosophical import and promoting a fruitful dialogue between Bourdieu and philosophers in the English–speaking world. The contributors include leading philosophers who critically assess Bourdieu?s philosophical theories and their significance from diverse philosophical perspectives to reveal which dimensions of his thought are the most useful for philosophy today. These discussions also raise important questions about the current institutional limits of philosophy and how those limits may be overcome through a more robust alliance with the social sciences and the practical social world. The contributions cover Bourdieu?s use of central figures in the Anglo–American philosophical tradition; his relationship to analytical philosophy and pragmatism through his concept of habitus; his position in twentieth–century continental philosophy;...