La réduction du contexte chez Bourdieu et Habermas

Maesschalck, Marc [UCL]

In Bourdieu, as in Habermas, the relations between the theory of social action and a comprehensive sociology of the world as it is experienced play a decisive role in understanding the transformation of forms of life. Hence it is possible to compare these two authors from the point of view of the operations they mobilize, ir order to describe these relations. Apart from the known differences, there results a degree of epistemological proximity in the manner of mobilising the schematism of representation, in order to explain the pragmatic competence to follow the rules. The hypothesis put forward by the A. is that this explanation reduces the context of action to a function of a semantic background.