[lbo-talk] Avoiding Bad Taste

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Fri Oct 8 11:11:20 PDT 2004


Dennis Redmond wrote:


> Pierre Bourdieu, "Distinction", 1975.

If you claim everyone is a crass opportunistic status seeker and that, say, Marx's appreciation of Shakespeare is nothing but a phoney baloney appropriation of the kind of "cultural capital" useful for gaining status in his particular social context, you are implicitly claiming that you yourself are nothing but a crass opportunistic status seeker.

Ted



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