File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_2000/bourdieu.0008, message 87


From: "Simon Beesley" <simonb-AT-beesleys.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Habitus
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:33:03 +0100


Ania,

You wrote:

"This does not make sense. First you cannot justify why research on
Alzheimer's makes sense as you refuse to see a need for justification why
anything makes sense.  Then you speculate that Alzheimer's research has a
chance to do something good. Tell me why??? Tell me why doing research on
Alzheimer's has a chance to help teh factors that in reality are not
Alzheimer's but simply a collection of factors that affect people in
certain ways?"

I hope you don't think me offensive, but I must say that your argument does
indeed seem to borrow the logic of Alice in Wonderland:

Simon: "Research into Alzheimer's disease is self-evidently a good thing. I see
no need for a justification of it."
Ania: "Ah, then you admit that you cannot justify research into Alzheimer's. Now
you must further concede that you have no good reason for thinking Alzheimer's
research has a chance to do something good."

I can't tell you why doing research on Alzheimer's "has a chance to help the
factors that in reality are not Alzheimer's but simply a collection of factors
that affect people in certain ways?" because, once again, I haven't the foggiest
idea what you are talking about.

Yours in perplexity
Simon




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