From: "Simon Beesley" <simonb-AT-beesleys.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: Habitus Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 09:00:58 +0100 Kent, You wrote: "I find your Alice quotations interesting, but smacks of an ahistoricism which the material conditions may have made obsolute." No greater ahistoricism -- and selective blindness to one of the main strands in Bourdieu's thought -- than to uncritically invoke the concepts of historicism and material conditions at this juncture, not to mention the ludicrousness of talking of Alice in Wonderland in these terms. Ahistoricism in the works of Lewis Carroll! Come to think of it, Kent, I also charge you with selective blindness in your reading of your greater master. Imagine the scorn and contempt with which Nietzsche would have regarded the theoretical effusions of the current academic/intellectual field. Regards Simon ********************************************************************** 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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