From: "Lynne Pettinger" <lmpett-AT-essex.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu: realist, materialist...?
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:27:50 +0100



For bourdieu as a critical realist:

Dreyfus and Rabinow 'Can their be a science of existential structure and
social meaning' in Calhoun, LiPuma and Postone (1993) Bourdieu: Critical
PErspectives. Cambridge, Polity Press.
Bourdieu's own concluding remarks in the same volume include a denial that
he is a critical realist.
Hope this is helpful for you Karl.

>I did want to Ask, though, whether there is anyone who knows much about
>whether Bourdieu has talked about scientific or critical realism.  I know
>Bridget Fowler mentions in an introduction to 'Understanding' that
>Bourdieu is a critial realist, but I'm not sure whether this has been
>discussed before on the list or in print.
>
>Personally, I think there are resonances with critical realism
>(relationalism, for example) but they may part company in areas where
>perhaps Bourdieu is unclear or ambivalent.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Karl


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