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1If Bourdieu came to the defence of writers and artists in his political interventions, and even claimed that the sociologist can be the greatest ally of those engaged in the creation and conservation of literary and artistic culture, his analyses have been more often criticised as reductive and destructive of cultural values. A particular bone of contention has been his insistence on the word ’science’, which especially jars when it is used to describe Bourdieu’s approach to literature, in Les Règles de l’art and elsewhere, as ’une science des oeuvres’.1 In this relationship, scientific knowledge and rationality appear to be privileged at the expense of literary expression and imagination. This chapter examines Bourdieu’s claim to science in both its social and epistemological contexts, and the opposition he sets up between science and literature. First, it reads Bourdieu’s analysis of Flaubert’s L’Éducation sentimentale as a study of the differe

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