File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_2000/bourdieu.0008, message 91


Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:16:30 +1000 (EST)
From: Ania Lian <ania-AT-lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Habitus


On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Simon Beesley wrote:

> Ania,
> >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?

> It occurred to me this might be your field of expertise. Now you've
> got me worried; my hypochondria has flared up. Do you see signs of
> incipient Alzheimer's disease in my recent Bourdieu list postings? I
> hope not. Much more interesting and less worrying is your suggestion
> that there may be non-organic factors in the aetiology of Alzheimer's
> disease. Is that what you mean?

I mean what Bourdieu means when he writes about the dangers of scholastic
point of view. (e.g."The scholastic point of view" in Practical reason.)
That is, you look at things only to believe that you see things.

As for non-organic, Alzheimer's is a product of a biological process.
Question is, which approach to thinking will help us identify it?

As for my work, I think and help to think, but on the bank application I
may have to write: language pedagogue. How does this define me?

Ania Lian


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