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The weight of the world : : social suffering in contemporary society / edited by Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Accardo and Gabrielle Balazs [et al.] ; translated by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson [et al.].

Contributor(s): Language: eng fre Publication details: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 1999.Description: x, 646 p. 26 cmISBN:
  • 0745615937
Uniform titles:
  • Misere du monde. English.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.5/WEI
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"Of the 69 articles or interviews in La misere du monde, 54 appear in this edition in addition to the methodological discussion of 'Understanding.' Articles were omitted for reasons of redundancy for a non-French audience or where the interviewees occupied very distinctively French positions ..."--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English translation: first published in France as La misere du monde, Editions du Seuil, 1993.