File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1996/96-01-02.102, message 214


Date: 19 Dec 95 02:52:48 EST
From: Anthony Beck <100764.1051-AT-compuserve.com>
Subject: Formulaic Practices


With reference to KERRY's comment under this rubric:
There may be some problems of our common language here.
The corruption in Habermasian terms concerns the distortions of power: eg that
the institution or rank of a contributor, or gender, may count more than the
substance of her contribution.  Further, that abuse ( or the inability to spell
eg pejorative) may interfere with the evaluation of same.
I am at a loss to know why muscle power is euphemistic.  Consider if you will
the LAPD use of muscle power.  I feel that capital is essentially symbolic in
B.'s usage and that this is limiting.  Further and separately I see as a problem
that field and capital are structures, if you will langue - without parole,
without action.
Anthont Beck.
And speaking of structure, the familiar problems of structuralism of limits also
seem to arise in talking about field and capital.
So far as tone is concerned, this raises the question of what one is doing.
>From Plato to JLAustin the appeal of philosophising consists partly in something
felt about discourse as much as something thought.



   

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