Commentary the challenge of the particular case: Bourdieu's sociology of culture and literary criticism

Modern Language Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 497-508

  Moi, Tori ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1215/00267929-58-4-497     Document Type: Note

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1. Charles Taylor makes a similar point when he distinguishes between philosophies that consider the subject primarily as a "monologic" subject of representation and philosophies such as those of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein that consider it as an embodied agent of practices ("To Follow a Rule . . . ," in Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives, ed. Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma, and Moishe Postone [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993],45-60).
2. In this paragraph I have the following sources in mind: Joseph Breuer and Sigmund Freud, Studies on Hysteria, vol. 2 of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psyche logical Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. James Strachey, 24 vols. (London: Hogarth, 1953-74)
3. Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, vols. 4-5 of The Standard Edition
4. Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyduy LiJe, vol. 6 of The Standard Edition. Sartre discusses skiing and sliding in Being and Nothingness, trans. Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Washington Square, 1992), 742-7
5. Beauvoir uncovers the philosophy of housework in The Second Sex, ed. and trans. H. M. Parshley (New York: Vintage 1989), 448-57
6. Merleau-Ponty discusses the sexual body in Phomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith, pt. 1, chap., (London: Routledge, 1986), 154-73
7. Austin wonders about the shooting of donkeys in "A Plea for Excuses," in Philosophical Papers, 3d ed., ed. J. 0. Urmson and G. J. Warnock (Oxford: Clarendon, 1979), 185
8. he uses the expression "linguistic phenomenology" in the same essay [ 1821).
9. The quoted passage by Wittgenstein comes from Philosophical Investigations, 3d ed., trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (New York: Macmillan, 1968), § 116
10. whereas the expression "context of significant use" is inspired by Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness (London: Routledge, 1974)
11. Sartre, L'Idiot de la famille: Gustave Flaubert de 1821 à 1857, vol. 1 (Paris: Gallimard, 1971 ), 7. My translation.
12. This is a revised version of the obituary of Sartre that Bourdieu published in the London Review of Rooks in, 1980.
13. See Bourdieu, The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, trans. Susan Emanuel (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), 209-13.
14. V. Y. Mudimbe has also discussed the importance of Sartre for The Rules of Art ("Reading and Teaching Pierre Bourdieu," Transition, no. 61[ 1994] : 144-60, esp. '144-5).
15. Derrida's Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989)
16. Is, among other things, a hidden polemic against Bourdieu's Political Ontology ofMartin Heiukgger trans. Peter Collier (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (1991).
17. In a more modest way, it is also my project in Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994).
18. Bourdieu, La Noblesse d'état (Paris: Minuit, 1989), 157. My translation.
19. Bourdieu, "Censorship," in Sociology in Question, trans. Richard Nice (London: Sage, 1993), 91.
20. My preparatory work for this chapter also produced a more general essay on Bourdieu. See "Appropriating Bourdieu: Feminist Theory and Bourdieu's Sociology of Culture," New Literary History 22 (1991): 1017-49.
21. Bourdieu, "Some Properties of Fields," in Sociology in Question, 72.