From: lampincj-AT-ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:51:56 -0500 Subject: Re: Bourdieu, Hume and Deleuze > I just recently picked up a copy of Deleuze's book on Hume, _Empiricism and Su >bjectivity_. While reading Constantin Boundas's intro, I became interested in >the possible connections between Deleuze's reading of Hume's empiricism, and Bo >urdieu's radical empiricism. I don't know if Bourdieu would agree with Deleuze >-Hume's particular construction of empiricism, but there are some interesting p >ossibilities for discussion there. For example, Hume's (and Deleuze's) concept > of habit put alongside Bourdieu's conception of habitus. > >Any thoughts on this? > >Erik Tsao >Wayne State University, Detroit >********************************************************************** >Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu interesting, I don't think there was much exchange (at least not in print) between them-- there is of course that very ambiguous (due, I'm sure to the attrocious translation) footnote in Deleuze's book on foucault, where he either says a)Foucault and Bourdieu (and I think, by association, Deleuze) are saying similar things, or b)Bourdieu is concerned with 'the small affairs of little men' I've been meaning to check the french for something like two years now to see just what the hell he's really saying. Christopher J. Lamping Graduate Department in History and Critical Theory of Religion Vanderbilt University email:lampincj-AT-ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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