File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1996/96-01-02.102, message 95


Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 20:42:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Marc Deneire <mdeneire-AT-mtu.edu>
Subject: Re: Wittgenstein




On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Terence Hickey wrote:

> 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'?
> 
Pierre Boudieu refers to Wittgenstein all the time and has a lot of 
respect for him.  Sorry if I do not have much time to look up references, 
but the index of "Reponse: Pour une anthropologie reflexive" shows 
references to W. on pages 32, 98,135, 156, and 240.  If I remember well, 
there was an article on Bourdieu and W. in the last issue of the journal 
"Critique."  
As for the second part of your question, I guess that you have something 
specific in mind when you talk about "forms of life", but I do not know 
what it is.  Sorry.
Marc.


   

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