Subject: Re: Leibniz
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:58:57 +0100


If anyone genuinely wants to pursue the extraordinarily difficult question of
the connections between Bourdieu's thought and Leibniz's, I would like to
recommend starting with Heidegger's book The Principle of Reason, which is an
extended discussion (brilliantly illuminating and profound) of Leibniz's
principle of sufficient reason -- that nothing happens without a reason. Until I
read this, I couldn't make head or tail of Heidegger and thought of him as
impossibly obscure, even a charlatan. This would be a very good place to start a
investigation into Bourdieu's philosophical roots since somewhere (in the
Reflexive Sociology book, possibly) he talks of writing a thesis on Heidegger
(and affectivity?), as a still younger man than the young oblate who wrote on
Leibniz.

Regards
Simon


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