TY - BOOK AU - Bourdieu, Pierre AU - Duval, Julien AU - Collier, Peter TI - The interest in disinterestedness: Lectures at the college de France (1987-1989) SN - 9781509555116 PY - 2024/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity press KW - Political sociology KW - Sociology study and teaching (Higher) France KW - Interest philosophy N2 - Is the state bureaucracy a universal class, as Hegel thought, or a structure that serves the interests of the dominant class, as Marx claimed? In his lecture courses at the Collège de France in 1987-88 and 1988-89, Pierre Bourdieu addressed these questions by examining the formation of the legal and bureaucratic fields characteristic of the modern state, uncovering the historical and social conditions that enable a social group to form and find its own interests in the very fact of serving interests that go beyond it ER -