PART ONE: THE CAREER/An Insider/Outside Frenchman/PART TWO: THE CONCEPTS/The Socio-Genesis of the Thinking Instruments/Production Reception and Reproduction/PART THREE: THE CASE STUDIES/Flaubert and the Social Ambivalence of Literary Invention/Courr[gr]eges the Fashion System and Anti-Semiology/Manet the Mus[ac]ee d'Orsay and the Installation of Art/PART FOUR: THE CRITICISMS/Evaluating Fragmented Responses/Meta-Criticism/Charting Interminable Territory/Conclusion/Commending the Bourdieu Paradigm: The Sociologist as Conceptual Artist