Timeline Wednesday 23 January 2002

Events on Wednesday 23 January 2002 3

• 1930 – 2002 Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Died 23 January 2002, aged 71 Pierre Bourdieu was among the most influential sociologists of the late 20th century. His concepts of cultural capital and habitus, set out in works such as Distinction, analysed how social hierarchies are reproduced through taste and education. In his later years he became a prominent public critic of neoliberal globalisation.
• 1938 – 2002 Robert Nozick (1938-2002) Died 23 January 2002, aged 63 The American philosopher Robert Nozick made his name with Anarchy, State, and Utopia in 1974, a libertarian argument for a minimal state that became the main counterpoint to John Rawls's liberalism. He ranged widely in later books across decision theory, ethics and the meaning of life. He taught at Harvard for more than three decades.
• 2002 Murder of Daniel Pearl Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and killed in Pakistan Daniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, was abducted in Karachi on 23 January 2002 while researching Islamist militant networks. He was held for a week and then beheaded by his captors, who released a video of the killing in February. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed later admitted carrying out the murder.