Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 10:38:12 -0500
From: Deborah Kilgore <kilgore-AT-unix.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu's health


heh heh.

i think but am not absolutely certain that kingsley is trying to say the
following:

1) the golden rule:  he/she who has the gold makes the rules.  (in this
case, symbolic capital is the gold)

2) reflecting on this fact is part of the Bourdieuvian deal in being a
good intellectual.  kingsley asserts that _all of us_ (i don't agree)
are being unreflective in presenting our own approaches to knowledge
construction as truth.

I think Kingsley uses the master's tools (heh heh), the gobbledygook of
academic discourse, to enhance his own legitimacy as a constructor of
knowledge.  

AS MUST WE ALL, I might add.  Poor Kingsley is not alone, nor is he
doing something outside of the practices that are demanded of him given
his own position in this field (hee hee).


_Academic Discourse_ (Bourdieu, Passeron, & Saint Martin) is a wonderful
SLIM volume that speaks to these sorts of things.  

Debbie

maria farrell wrote:

>   Would it be possible to provide an English translation of the above?  Or,
> at the very least, explain what on earth it is you're trying to say!
> 
> Maria Farrell
> Dublin Institute of Technology


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Deborah Kilgore     
Texas A&M University
Fue tan bello vivir cuando vivias!
How lovely it was to live while you lived!
- Pablo Neruda, from "Final"
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