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 > ********************************************************************** > Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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