File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1996/96-01-02.102, message 91


Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:13:26 +1000 (GMT+1000)
From: Terence Hickey <pd337375-AT-student.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Wittgenstein


On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Marc Deneire wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, John Hollister wrote:
> 
> > When I read B and W's Intro to Reflexive Sociology, it made the most
> > sense when I misunderstood 'fields' as specific locations, occupying
> > a particular space and time, engaging specific bodies and selves, and
> 
> I do not believe that P.B. has such an essentialist notion of "field". I 
> remember a TV interview in which he insisted on the fact that fields are 
> changing all the time, new fields are being created and existing fields 
> are changing and/or disappearing.  Remember the influence of Goffman and 
> Wittgenstein on B
> 
-------------->
I am a newcomer to Bourdieu. Would you please give references where
Bourdieu acknowledges Wittgenstein. Does he relate 'fields' to 'forms 
of life'?

Terry Hickey

pd337375-AT-student.uq.edu.au 
Philosophy
UofQueensland


   

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