From: Mikael Aktor <MA15-AT-soas.ac.uk>
Date:          Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:00:18 GMT
Subject:       Re: Using Pierre: embodiment


> Date sent:      Mon, 25 Dec 1995 18:22:10 -0600
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> From:           Carolyn Pevey <cpevey-AT-uts.cc.utexas.edu>
> Subject:        Re: Using Pierre
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> My interest in Bourdieu follows from an interest in Merleau-Ponty and a 
> suspicion that they are both saying important things about how we understand 
> our embodied existence, although I am not sure what either is saying.
> 
> 
> I am wondering what I will find out about the importance of bodily 
> transcendance 

    what is that??

> as I interview people who have been told by their physicians 
> that they have 6 months or less to live.
> 
> 
> If anyone can help me better understand exactly what Bourdieu is 
saying about embodiment, I will be grateful.
> 
> 
> So far, I see only that he's saying that our bodies are inscribed with the 
> social.  Profound enough, but is there more?
> 

    Good question; and how exactly are the terms "body", "bodily", 
"embodied" etc. applied in B- and B-inspired terminology? 
Metaphorically? So it seems sometimes from the taken-for-granted 
yet indefinite way it is used. Or are these terms to be understood 
literally and physically? This would call for quite a lot 
explanation.
    Sorry if these questions have been debated already since the 
original posting. I didnt read the rest of my mail-box before sending 
this.

Mikael Aktor, History of Religions, Univ. of Copenhagen.
MA15-AT-soas.ac.uk  -- or --  aktor-AT-coco.ihi.ku.dk