Unpublished works by the sociologist, written as part of his collaboration with a German art historian, will be published by Éditions de Minuit, the publisher announced.
In its publication program sent to the press, Minuit announces an essay by the historian Étienne Anheim and the sociologist Paul Pasquali on « the forgotten story of the meeting between two emblematic figures of the human sciences of the 20th centurye century ».
They are Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) and Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968), an art historian exiled in the United States after the Nazis came to power in 1933.
Although the French sociologist later became interested in the history of art, there was little that united them a priori in the 1960s. But Pierre Bourdieu chose to translate Erwin Panofsky himself for the first time into French. This will give Gothic architecture and scholastic thoughtwork published by Minuit in 1967.
-« Between December 1966 and June 1967, the sociologist and the historian exchanged numerous letters, transcribed here in the appendix, of which no one was aware until today »indicate Éditions de Minuit.
Of the « personal archives of the two scholars » are also included in the volume entitled Bourdieu and Panofsky: essay on intellectual archeology», to be published on March 6.
