Myths, Loose Fits and Near Misses

I shall try to outline some of the problems of mise en relief encountered in the years that I have been translating the work of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The examples come from translation done in the course of 1988 : a translation of Le Sens pratique (Editions de Minuit, 1980) to be published in 1989 (Polity Press, Oxford) under the title – which itself deserves comment – The Logic of Practice ; and an article by two other sociologists, L. Boltanski and L. Thévenot. I shall talk in En..