Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 19:48:38 -0500
From: Deborah Kilgore <kilgore-AT-unix.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: PB and New Concepts


my take on *Rules of Art* was that Flaubert, being a 'dominated dominant,'
was in the only kind of position that would be capable of changing the
field.  i'm not sure what you mean by miracle.

- deb


At 08:52 PM 9/22/1998 +0000, you wrote:
>>Hi!
>>
>>I think "conatus" is a term of Spinoza's, referring to an organism's
>>attempt to persist in its own being.
>
>This rings a bell with me! I have been trying to read *Rules of Art* more
>rigorously from the begining, and have been struck by Bourdieu's idea of
>determination/indetermination, and Flaubert's stategy to transcend these
>alternatives, something all 'creative' agents aspire to, often against real
>and awesome odds, which is why, without romanticizing, real achievement in
>any field is something of a 'miracle'- meaning by this nothing
>supernatural, but a fortuitous conjunction of habitus and field.
>
>
>Roger Cook
>The University of Reading
>
>
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