From: "Isabel Morgado" <imorgado-AT-ifl.pt>
Subject: Re: HAB: reflexive theory
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 17:06:08 +0100


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Blaser, why don`t you read the book from James Swindal, Reflection revisited: J=FCrgen Habermas`s discursive theory of truth, Fordham University Press, New York, 1999?
Probably it help`s you.

regards,
isabel
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From: Jeremias Blaser <Jeremias.Blaser-AT-iepi.unil.ch>
To: <habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: HAB: reflexive theory


> >
> What's Bourdieu's sense of reflexive?
>
> I' am sorry for that, I thought this guy was familiar to everybody so
> please forgive me if this wasn't the case.
> To put it shortly Bourdieu speaks about reflexivity as an
> epistemological attitude which especially sociologists should
> develop. Basically he means that one important source of error in
> social science is an uncontrolled relationship between the researcher
> and his object which implies that the researcher tends to project
> this uncontrolled relation in his researchobject. Bourdieu's purpose
> to avoid this type of spontaneaous analysis is a reflexivity in
> social science which consist in analysing it's own position in the
> field of scientific production while analysing objects like
> "education politics", "language" "social mouvement" etc. etc. This
> practice should lead first to a better understanding of what we are
> doing socially when we practice social sciences;  second this
> reflexivity should contribute to a social theory which is aware and
> capable to handle the epistemocentrism of research.
>
> I was wondering if Habermas has made similar reflections concerning
> this issue especially because Bourdieu's purposes come out of his
> empirical research and practice, while Habermas hasn't really done
> empirical research.
>
> If anybody has any comment, please go ahead
>
> regards
>
> Jeremias
>
> P.S. hope my english is understandable
>
> Jeremias Blaser
> IEPI
> BFSH 2
> Universit de Lausanne
> 1015 Dorigny (VD)
> Switzerland
> Tel. 0041 21 692 31 36
> Fax. 0041 21 692 31 45
>
>
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