From: AHAGGERT-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:29:58 EST
Subject: Re: Theatre


In a message dated 11/10/99 10:55:33 PM EST, sigmund5-AT-hotmail.com writes:

<< How can it be stable across national boundaries?  Are not the conditions 
of 
 production of habuitus and the relations of the field from country to 
 country rather different that despite the expansion of capital that the 
 reading of texts and schemes of perception used to read them would vary?  >>

Kent:

All I was saying was that a student is a student and a professor is a 
professor in Berlin as in Scranton, PA. Are you suggesting that the history 
of a specific social formation like "higher education" should privilege 
national boundaries at the expense of everything else? Or that, if we're 
quoting Scripture to serve our purposes, I shouldn't demand that the preface 
to the English edition of Distinction should be made a prequisite (3 credit 
maximum) to all our discussions? Anyway, you ignored my central point, which 
is that we are reproducing social distinctions according to the laws of email 
as well as being intellectually provocative. 

<<Euoropeans are MUCH better at giving subtle, non-oppositional or 
thoughtless reproduction of Bourdieu's work>>

You're also something of a snob. Unless you're being wittily ironical, in 
which case I salute your truly nuanced reflexive sociological Eurosnobbery, 
according to which common courtesy can be dispensed with as a silly 
affectation. 

A chara, 
Andrew Haggerty
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