HabitusAnalysis 1 Epistemology and Language
This book is the first of three volumes of HabitusAnalysis that take the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu as a starting point to develop a methodical approach to the habitus of social actors. However, the concept of habitus and Bourdieu’s approach to language
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Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer
HabitusAnalysis 1 Epistemology and Language
Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer Bielefeld University, Germany In memoriam Otto Maduro Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the framework of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
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And as for certain truth, no man has seen it, nor will there ever be a man who knows about the gods and about all the things I mention. For if he succeeds to the full in saying what is completely true, he himself is nevertheless unaware of it; and opinion (seeming) is fixed by fate upon all things. (Xenophanes of Colophon, Fragment 34, in: Freeman 1948, 30)
Language may be compared with the spear of Amfortas in the legend of the Holy Grail. The wounds that language inflicts upon human thought can not be healed except by language itself. Language is the distinctive mark of man-and even in its development, in its growing perfection it remains human-perhaps too human. It is anthropocentric in its very essence and nature. But at the same time it possesses an inherent power by which, in its ultimate result, it seems to transcend itself. From those forms of speech that are meant as means of communication and that are necessary for every social life and intercourse it develops into new forms; it sets itself different and higher tasks. And by this it becomes able to clear itself of those fallacies and illusions to which the common usage of language is necessarily subject. Man can proceed from ordinary language to scientific language, to the language of
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