From: "Simon Beesley" <simonb-AT-beesleys.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Leibniz
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:37:24 +0100


> Can you please explain what you mean by this phrase?

Not any more clearly than I have done already over several posts.

> Your point would be?  Isn't that a valid, if "fantastically
> difficult," intellectual enterprise?  Isn't part of any intellectual
> enterprise "strewn with all sorts of false trails, snares and decoys"?

No.

> Perhaps not pedally challenged, but perhaps naive?  As perhaps has
> already been suggested, what if one could demonstrate that Bourdieu
> had taken a course on Leibniz, that his book collection contained
> Leibniz's oeuvre with detailed annotations in Bourdieu's own hand,
> that he was an enthusiastic channeler of Leibniz in some occult
> spiritualist frenzy? :)  And why cannot one read Bourdieu by means of
> Leibniz in the same way that one might read Joyce by means of Homer?

Go ahead. I look forward to reading your thoughts in this direction. I'd also be
very interested in hearing about your reading of Joyce by means of Homer; i.e.
beyond the kind of reading one can get from Joyce Made Simple or Joyce for
Dummies.

> And your point would be?  So what if Bourdieu inveighed against
> journalistic simplifications?

Sorry, can't spell it out again.

Regards
Simon




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