Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:58:45 +0100
From: "Grethe H. L. Melby" <stud2081-AT-student.uib.no>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu and love


Peter,

At 14:33 25.03.99 +0000, you wrote:
>>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)?

Was it this?

"Love is also a way of loving one's own destiny in someone else and so of
feeling loved in one's own destiny" Distinction, pg 243, Routledge ed 1992


>If I'm not mistaken (I had the same inkling), there are some remarks
>to that effect in one of the many interviews that Bourdieu gave, and
>which were collected, in German at least, in _Rede und Antwort_. I
>can't be too sure yet Ithink that this collection covers what Polity
>Press published as _In Other Words_. Since I have neither edition
>handy, I can only give these somewhat hazy clues, sorry for that.

And list, 

thanks for your responses 

Grethe

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