Bourdieu, Pierre
Pierre #Bourdieu:
“It is true that sociological analysis hardly makes concessions to
narcissism and that it carries out a radical rupture with the profoundly
complaisant image of human existence defended by those who want, at all
cost, to think of themselves as ‘the most irreplaceable of beings.’ But
it is no less true that it is one of the most powerful instruments of
self-knowledge as a social being, which is to say a unique being... It
also offers some of the most efficacious means of attaining the freedom
from social determinisms which is possible only through knowledge of
those determinisms.”
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1998. Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Stanford University Press. (p. ix)
