From: "kent strock" <sigmund5-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Robbins book--review
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:54:20 GMT


simon says,


>
I am simply trying to follow up
>Jon's (and Robbins's and Malgazorta Jacyno's) ideas about applying
>some of Bourdieu's conceptions to his own trajectory and theoretical 
>practice...I know next to nothing about Boudon and
>Touraine and very little in general about "the French field" and, truth to 
>tell,
>I am not terribly interested in it.
I find this contrite will to ignorance about the "the French field" 
particularly in regards to Derrida questionable and disturbing.  Bourdieu 
states in several places that to understand his work one must understand his 
position and lineage.  If you are interested in applying his conceptions it 
might be of use to understand his relation to structuralism and why he left 
it's dogmatism  and the similarity in this re-formulation of structure that 
is so important in the work of Derrida. As was stated in a previous post B. 
is concern with 20th century literature, ideology, culture and globalization 
he "surpassed"(under erasure) Marx.    I think a similar homology can be 
drawn between Bourdieu's movement from levi-straus's classic scientism and 
Derrida's post-structuralism (may I suggest you read Derrida's critique of 
Levi-Straus in Of Gramatology). This of course throws the question of 
language up in the air which both Derrida and Bourdieu do.  Disparaging 
remarks or attempts to reintrepret it to common languag B. language, without 
having understood its historical roots and to cavalierly defend this 
ignorance is rather astounding.
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