Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 20:41:59 +0100
Subject: Re: Leibnitz




Bravo! Simon - you should be proud.


"The manifest brutality of some epithets - which would not be permissible in
ordinary usage: where 'servile', for example would be replaced by
'humble'...or 'modest' - should not deceive us: the academic excuse which
maintains that the judgment is applied to a piece of work and not its
author, the fact that these are adolescents who may still improve, and who
may be treated more roughly and frankly..., none of these suffices to
explain the complacency and freedom in symbolic aggression observable in all
examination situations", P.  Bourdieu, Postscript - The Categories of
Professorial Judgment, Homo Academicus (Cambridge: Polity Press,1996), p.
205.

John Evans

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>From: Simon Beesley <simonb-AT-beesleys.freeserve.co.uk>
>To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: Leibnitz
>Date: Sat, May 12, 2001, 3:45 pm
>

>> 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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