File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1999/bourdieu.9907, message 59


Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 21:27:05 -0400
From: Michael Edward Webster <mwebster-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu the "Top Guy"


I read this list a lot, and this is one of the best comments I have read!

George Free wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Guenter Trendler wrote:
>
> > why then should someone live his standpoint and take his one?
> >
>
> Personally, I don't see Bourdieu's standpoint as just his standpoint. You
> could say that 95% of his work "merely" summarizes or captures the
> sociological legacy of his predecessors (Marx, Weber, Durkheim, etc.) and
> communicates this legacy for contemporary use. Even the famous concept
> of habitus is not at all original with Bourdieu. It comes from Panofsky
> and can be found throughout the previous German sociological tradition,
> back through to Hegel etc.
>
> Bourdieu makes the tools of the socilogical tradition available to us. We
> can study his work to appropriate these tools for ourselves and to use
> them for our own purposes.
>
> all the best,
> George
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