Derek Robbins is Emeritus Professor of International Social Theory at the University of East London. He is the author of The Work of Pierre Bourdieu (Open University Press, 1991), Bourdieu and Culture (Sage, 2000), On Bourdieu, Education and Society (Bardwell Press, 2006) and French Post-War Social Theory: International Knowledge Transfer (Sage, 2011). He has published many articles and book chapters on the work of Bourdieu. He edited and introduced Jean-Claude Passeron's Sociological Reasoning, (Bardwell Press, 2013). Most recently, he published Cultural Relativism and International Politics (Sage, 2014) and edited and contributed to the volume on Bourdieu in the Anthem Companions to Sociology series (Anthem Press, 2016). His The Bourdieu paradigm. The origins and evolution of an intellectual social project was published by Manchester University Press in July, 2019.

Contents: L'École des cadres à Uriage: its origins and its originators - L'École des cadres à Uriage: its practice - Vers le style du XXe siècle: its authors - Vers le style du XXe siècle: brief synopsis and introduction to editorial practice - The translated text of Vers le style du XXe siècle - The subsequent careers of the authors - The French reception, 1960- 2020 - Editorial reflections.