Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:10:35 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Emrah Goker <egoker-AT-Bilkent.EDU.TR>
Subject: Re: PB and New Concepts




On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Carsten Sestoft wrote

> I don't think these are really new concepts in Bourdieu, the conatus being
> (if I remember it correctly) a concept from Leibniz used by Wacquant to
> explain how habitus works in a philosophical sense (Bourdieu uses however
> the word twice in Meditations pascaliennes (1997), see the index), while
> informational capital is -- I suppose -- just a generalization of cultural
> capital, information being a somewhat wider term which contains forms of
> knowledge that are not properly cultural (but then what is?). The index of
> concepts in Mediations pascaliennes (of which the English translation by
> Richard Nice will soon appear, I think) seems to turn cultural and
> informational capital into equivalents.

That has been quite informative, Carsten, thanks. I will take a look at
Leibniz to be assured. Unfortunately, I know no French to consult
Meditations pascaliennes... 

Best Wishes,
Emrah Goker

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