File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_2000/bourdieu.0008, message 74


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






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