... of open dialogues. Combining Hannah Arendt's study of judgment with Pierre Bourdieu's social critique of power relations, and incorporating elements of political epistemology from Kant, Wittgenstein, H. L. A. Hart, Max Weber, and American philosophical pragmatism, the book centers its inquiry on the way...

...This chapter presents Joanne Hollows' critique of the ‘convertibility’ of the subcultural capital acquired through cult fandom. Drawing on the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Sarah Thornton, Hollows made a division between those who convert subcultural capital into economic capital through careers...