Informed by Irving Horowitz’s view of the Festschrift, this article adopts both a retrospective and a prospective approach to the work of the sociologist Bridget Fowler. On the one hand, it assesses some of the key characteristics and contributions of her three single-authored books: The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century (1991), Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory (1997) and The Obituary as Collective Memory (2007). On the other, it takes cues from these books to develop a more forward-looking type of reflection that connects some recent sociological and anthropological research on ‘the neoliberal university’ to writing about hope and utopia. The article emphasises that Fowler is attentive not only to processes of social reproduction but also to what John Holloway terms ‘cracks in the texture of domination’, that is, to examples of freedom, resistance and the imagination of alternatives in popular culture and elsewhere. At the same time, it shows how thinking about utopia and hope can contribute to debates about ‘the alienated academic’ and the ‘death’ of universities. The article concludes that Fowler’s sociology is, alongside its many other qualities, a valuable contribution to ‘re-learning hope’, arguably one of the most important challenges facing us today.

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重新学习希望：关于异化、理论和大学的“死亡”


以欧文·霍洛维茨 （Irving Horowitz） 对 Festschrift 的看法为参考，本文对社会学家布里奇特·福勒 （Bridget Fowler） 的工作采用了回顾性和前瞻性的方法。一方面，它评估了她的三本独著著作的一些关键特征和贡献：《异化的读者：二十世纪的女性和流行浪漫主义文学》（1991 年）、《皮埃尔·布迪厄与文化理论》（1997 年）和《作为集体记忆的讣告》（2007 年）。另一方面，它从这些书中汲取灵感，发展出一种更具前瞻性的反思方式，将最近一些关于“新自由主义大学”的社会学和人类学研究与关于希望和乌托邦的写作联系起来。文章强调，福勒不仅关注社会再生产的过程，还关注约翰·霍洛威（John Holloway）所说的“统治质地的裂缝”，即流行文化和其他地方的自由、抵抗和对替代方案的想象的例子。同时，它展示了对乌托邦和希望的思考如何有助于关于“被疏远的学者”和大学“死亡”的辩论。文章总结说，福勒的社会学及其许多其他品质对“重新学习希望”做出了宝贵贡献，这可以说是我们今天面临的最重要挑战之一。