Subject: Re: Leibnitz
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 15:45:36 +0100


> Can anybody tell me what the connection is between Bourdieu's thought and that
> of Liebnitz. If Althusser was influenced by Spinoza (presumably in terms of
> lack of free will and monism) how is Bourdieu influenced by Liebnitz

Why is a fox's tail bushy? The connection between Bourdieu's thought and that of
Leibnitz is ... X, quantifiably so, demonstrably thus. Do you think Bourdieu
studied under Leibnitz?

I.e. whatever the connection is -- didn't the young Bourdieu write a thesis on
Leibniz? -- how can you imagine that the connection could be distilled or
reduced or given a philosophy-by-numbers treatment? This is misplaced
concretism, reversed-literalism, run riot. The fatuously confident note of the
fatuous remark "presumably in terms of lack of free will and monism" -- why
presumably?

Pip! pip!
Simon






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