"Distinction", one of Pierre Bourdieu's most important books and a landmark in the history of sociology, presents the genetic anthropology of power with an emphasis on the symbolic dimension that characterizes his work as a whole. Through the analysis of taste, a fundamental expression of social necessity, as a tool and stake in the classification struggles through which social groups, seeking to maintain or improve their position, attempt to impose their way of life as the only legitimate one, Pierre Bourdieu brings back the homo aestheticus to the core of social science. Drawing on an enormous volume of empirical and critical theoretical work that touches on the most diverse fields of practice (music, photography, cinema, museum visits, entertainment, food, interior decoration, clothing, reading, personal hygiene, sports, child-rearing, friend selection, political positioning) and resorting to a new language that allows for the juxtaposition of theoretical construction and the events that research reveals, graphic representation and photography, conceptual analysis and interviews, models and documents, Pierre Bourdieu redefines all the traditional questions about the beautiful, art, taste, and culture, and analyzes the complex link between culture, power, and identity in contemporary societies. The scientific thinking that Pierre Bourdieu activates in "Distinction" is methodologically characterized both by the relational approach to social life and by the reflection that is embedded in the core of his theory of society and knowledge, of intellectual practice and its inherent limits.