From: Timo Lindman <timolindman-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [BOU:] Hello and question re Bourdieu and altruism Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:53:05 -0400 On May 13, 2004, at 10.40 am, Erik Hoogcarspel wrote: > David Brake wrote: > >> I am a PhD student at the London School of Economics studying weblog >> and personal home page creation using field theory and I am delighted >> to find this mailing list which I am sure will be very helpful in my >> wrestling with the application of Bourdieu to my field of study. >> (Note: I can read French reasonably well but am not all that fluent >> in writing it. By coincidence however my wife is French! I assume >> this list is predominantly in English...) >> >> My first question is how can I account for altruistic behaviour in a >> field? A number of personal home pages appear to have been created >> solely to help others because the Internet acts as a "force >> multiplier" enabling people to help large numbers of others with >> little effort of their own. Bourdieu, however, appears very skeptical >> of altruism (eg. Outline of a theory of practice p. 22 - altruism's >> purpose is "to compound the satisfactions of enlightened self >> interest with the advantage of ethical impeccability"). Does he >> discuss altruism in any more detail elsewhere? Do you think one can >> consider something a field that contains altruistic behaviour? >> >> If people are interested and would like to know more I have written a >> short (3000 word) paper addressing this problem but I don't feel I >> have come to a satisfactory solution. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas? And is anyone else out there applying >> Bourdieu to studies of the Internet or personal web publishing in >> particular? >> > You'll find the most elaborate answer probably in 'Raisons Pratiques' > (Ed. du Seuil - Paris 1994 - sorry, I don't know the English title and > even not if it has been translated) ch. 5: "Un acte désinteressé, > est-il possible?'('Is a desinterested act possible?'). > Published in English as "Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action" in the US by Stanford (perhaps Polity in the UK?) ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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