Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:40:43 -0400 (EDT) From: George Free <aw570-AT-freenet.toronto.on.ca> Subject: Re: Info Request: Geneology of "Habitus" -Reply On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Shawn Lindsay wrote: > I have run accross "habitus" in German writings (Adorno is the only name > that springs to min), ,but the sense of the word is rather different from > Bourdieu's, who was clearly borrowing from Mauss. Shawn. > > On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 R.Kahn-AT-derby.ac.uk wrote: > > > Genealogy of Habitus > > > > One earlier use of Habitus is in Marel Mauss' essay on "Techniques of the > > Body", I think he also says something about where he took "habitus" from. > > > > A good source on this is Bourdieu's "The Genesis of the Concepts of Habitus and of Field" _Sociocriticism_ Vol. 2, December 1985, p. 11-24. A quote: "I introduced this notion [of habitus], on the occasion of the publication in French of two articles by Panofsky which up to that point had never been looked at together; one on gothic architecture where the word habitus was used as an <<indigenous>> concept, to explain the effect of scholastic thinking in the area of architecture, the other article on the abbot Suger, where one could also make it work. . . . By taking up the old aristotelian notion of hexis, converted by scholasticim into habitus, I wished to react against structuralism and its odd philosphy of action . . . I did this by removing Panofsky from the neo-Kantian philosophy of <<symbolic forms>>, in which he had remained imprisoned . . ." As well as in Mauss, Bourdieu indicates that the term has a very long history. It can be found in Hegel and the German idealist tradition generally as well as in the phenomenological philosophy of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. I believe Max Weber used the term on occasion as did Karl Mannheim as I recently discovered. In Mannheim the term habitus is translated as "global outlook." regards, George Free aw570-AT-torfree.net Toronto, Ontario Canada ********************************************************************** 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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