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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:49:28 -0500
From: Gingras.yves-AT-uqam.ca (Yves Gingras)
Subject: Re: Info Request: Geneology of "Habitus"


Doug Walton wrote:
>I am trying to trace the intellectual geneology of Bourdieu's term
>`habitus'.   It seems to drop out of the sky into his work Outline of a
>Theory of Practice.
>
>Does anyone know from where Bourdieu's `habitus' might derive?
>
>Might there be a link with Husserl's employment of the same term?
>


In the mid 1980s -- I do not have here the exact date -- there has been a
paper  in Revue francaise de sociologie titled "la seconde nature de
l'habitus" which covers part of this ground.
See also Bourdieu's postface to his translation of Panofski's book on
Gothic Architecture.

Yves Gingras
Dept. D'histoire
UQAM




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