David L. Swartz, Symbolic Power, Politics and Intellectuals. The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013, 304 pp.

English: Taking as a point of departure the firm conviction that “power stands at the core of Bourdieu’s sociology,” Swartz reconstructs the routes through which the French sociologist comes to build a homogeneous and consistent theory of power and State domination. A theory that is beautifully summarized in the lectures on the State that Bourdieu held at the Collège de France and that have been recently collected in a book by Seuil. Italian: La recensione mette in luce come Swartz ricostruisca gli itinerari attraverso i quali Bourdieu costruisce una rigorosa teoria del potere e dello Stato, come emerge in particolare dalle lezioni al Collège de France, che Bourdieu ha tenuto alla fine degli anni Ottanta e all'inizio dei Novanta.