File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_2000/bourdieu.0006, message 68


From: "George Free" <gfree-AT-linux.ca>
Subject: Re: Objectivity, Kuhn and Bourdieu
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:53:28 -0400




>
>It seems to me that the links between Bourdieu's notions of scientific
>habitus and scientific fields and Kuhn's later ideas on scientific
>communities could be more fully explored!
>


Agreed. One interesting indirect connection is that Kuhn was apparently
influenced a great deal in his work by the German tradition of art history.
Bourdieu is, of course, an admirer of Panofsky--one of the late
representatives of this tradition.

The art history tradition was not sociological in nature, but contributed
powerfully to the notion of habitus and the structural analysis of 'styles'
or patterns of thought -- a point emphasized by Mannheim who, along with the
Webers, did try to move this tradition in a sociological direction.

In the English-speaking world, we still lack the intellectual tools to
carryout the kinds of analyses of the history of culture that the idealist
and structuralist traditions of continental Europe developed to a high
degree.

Kuhn is a bit unusual in this respect for having successfully imported this
tradition in to the English-speaking world...

cheers,
George

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