Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 08:17:33 +0200
From: Guenter Trendler <trendler-AT-rumms.uni-mannheim.de>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu the "Top Guy"




George Free wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Victor Braitberg wrote:
>
>
> I fail to see these "authoritarian tendencies." If I remember correctly,
> in this response, he says its not worthwhile to address each of the
> individual criticisms levelled against him, because they all stem from
> basic misunderstandings which arise from the social situation of the
> critics. By pointing out these social conditions, and how they give rise
> to these misunderstandings, Bourdieu is doing the service of clarifying
> the situation and preparing the ground for real dialogue. Far from being
> authoritarian, it is "liberalizing" one might say, in the sense that it
> helps establish the conditions of free discourse, and genuine exchange.

you really think this could work? real dialogue and genuine exchange? what is
that? maybe bourdieu is not as much entangled by social and historical
conditions, because he reflects on them (or more on of those of others). still
it is strange that even though he always confesses his sociology to be reflexive
and thus to fall under the relativizing influences of field, habit etc., he
still conveys to have the truth and only possible view. In this respect I don't
see any essential difference to marx and freud.
why then should someone live his standpoint and take his one?

kindest reagrds
guenter trendler

>


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