Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:08:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu & Romanticism


Thanks for the references.  Of those you cite, the one on Wordsworth is the
most relevant to me.  I guess I didn't find it in the MLA Bibliography
myself because I didn't search for Wordsworth by name; I searched only for
Romanticism in general and for William Blake in particular.

This might seem odd, but I haven't read Bourdieu's DISTINCTION, which I take
to be the seminal text in these matters.  I have Derek Robbin's book on
Bourdieu and am mostly familiar with Mr. B second-hand, and then I fell by
the wayside.  I bought his book on the logic of practice and then it
promptly got lost.  But I was inspired by THE POLITICAL ONTOLOGY OF MARTIN
HEIDEGGER, I dog-eared just about every page.  What an amazing methodology,
what great writing, what devastating criticism!

I just checked out a (the?) major Bourdieu website today.  There was a huge
bibliography of writing by and about Mr. B.  In the absence of an online
search engine, I would have to download the whole frame to look for
something specific of interest.

I'm interesting in finding more Bourdieu-esque treatment of Romanticism and
especially of philosophers and philosophy as a field.  (Re the latter, I
found only one reference of possible relevance in THE PHILOSOPHER'S INDEX.)

At 04:32 PM 9/1/98 -0500, Frank Whigham wrote:
>For some such work check out the striking work of Fred Hoerner, late of the
>U of Texas at Austin. Several of his articles derive from his remarkable
>dissertation which makes active use of Bourdieu. I don't have that reference.
 

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