Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:07:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Orange <tmorange-AT-julian.uwo.ca>
Subject: "stylistic unity" and le sens pratique


in the preface to /the logic of practice/, bourdieu is discussing how
"agents apply the same schemes of perception and action" to both weaving
and harvesting, thus suggesting a homology between the agrarian cycle and
the cycle of weaving.  he continues:

	this practical sense is, on reflexion, no more and no less
	mysterious than the one that confers stylistic unity on all the
	choices that the same person, that is, the same taste, may make
	in the most varied areas of practice... (13)

aside from the fact that person/agent seems here to equal taste, and the
ambiquity of the "no more...no less" formulation, i'm hoping someone can
discuss this "stylistic unity" as it relates to le(s) sens pratique(s),
specifically: 1) what is "stylistic unity" here and is there another term
in bourdieu's lexicon for it?; 2) there seems to be more than one logic of
practice at work here, as suggested by the "this...that" formulation, so
what distinguishes them?

much thanks,
tom orange

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