Originally published in English by Polity Press, Cambridge in 1988.;Originally published in French by Les Editions de Minuit in 1984.
List of graphs, classifications and tables; Acknowledgements; translator's note; preface to the english edition; 1. A 'book for burning'; 2. The conflict of the faculties; 3. Types of capital and forms of power; 4. The defence of the corps and the break in equilibrium; 5. The critical moment; Postscript; Appendices; Notes; Index.