Subject: Re: Leibnitz
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 02:45:42 



I  would only add, in concurring with Simon...to ask such a question is,  
least of all ahistorical, but flies in the face of practical logic and the 
type of self-reflexivity that Bourdieu calls for...how  can these incredibly 
important components of Bourdieu's thought be ignored? In the name of 
something else? The question raises the spectre of an absolute metaphysical 
bar of evaluation and comparision...a foundation  that not  only doesn't 
exist...but impedes thought.

>From: Simon Beesley <simonb-AT-beesleys.freeserve.co.uk>
>Reply-To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>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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