File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1999/bourdieu.9903, message 79


From: "poisson soluble" <poisson_soluble-AT-online.be>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu and love
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:07:24 +0100


Dear S. Pines-Martin
you can read about amor fati regarding Simone de Beauvoir and JP Sartre in
the text Bourdieu wrote as forwords for the french edition of MOI, Torril,
Simone de Beauvoir, the making of an intellectual woman (also in Liber n°33,
December 1997)
regards,

poisson_soluble-AT-online.be


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De : S.Pines-Martin-AT-iaea.org <S.Pines-Martin-AT-iaea.org>
À : bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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Date : jeudi 25 mars 1999 13:27
Objet : RE: Bourdieu and love


>I did read, somewhere, Bourdieu saying that romantic love is always "amor
>fati" or something like that, that it involves the projection of one's
>"social destiny", habitus or whatever, on the loved one. But I can't
>remember where I read it. Does anyone have any idea where it might be (or
>did I just imagine I read this)?
>
>Sergio
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: D.A. Butterworth [SMTP:dave-AT-Butterworth53.freeserve.co.uk]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 24. March 1999 13:49
>> To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>> Subject: Re: Bourdieu and love
>>
>> With regard to the usefulness of Habitus as a
>> concept in the study of interpersonal attraction,
>> aren't there studies in social psych. that suggest
>> that opposites do not attract and that similarity
>> is a major factor in relationships?
>>
>> This would then fit in with Bourdieu's claim that
>> people tend towards social situations that
>> reinforce, rather than threaten, their habitus.
>>
>> As such, rather than falling in love involving a
>> decoding of a habitus by the other, surely it
>> would be more correct (and less romantic still) to
>> say that falling in love is simply an
>> (unconscious?) recognition of similarity between
>> the habitus' in two people who are physically
>> attracted to one another,
>>
>> Dave.
>>
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