Crisis, habitus, and intellectual trajectory

My Evolutionary Trajectory: notes towards an intellectual autobiography

The present essay is an attempt to make a global assessment of the things I have achieved up to now during my academic career. This is an excellent occasion for me to summarize and review a research trajectory that is very wide-ranging and multidisciplinary, and that therefore may seem to lack focus, but that actually has been driven by a constant interest in the self-organization of complexity...

The dynamics of intellectual resources during the economic crisis

slavophilism: the outcome of intellectual identity crisis in russia

slavophilism is described as a manifestation of national consciousness among russian intellectuals at the early 19th century. the aim of this article is to furnish a ground for understanding slavophilism as an attempt by a group of russian educated elites to confront the intellectual identity crisis. for the explanation of this idea, the article begins with a discussion of the different aspects...

The Easternization Thesis and the Western Habitus

An exercise in hermeneutical suspicion, this article engages the extent to which the burgeoning appearance of ostensibly Eastern concepts and practices within everyday late-modern discourse and practice can actually be said to represent a thoroughgoing “Easternization” of Western culture. Using insights from Pierre Bourdieu, this article argues that Eastern themes have been appropriated by succ...

Mitral valve prolapse and a Marfanoid habitus.

likely to fall. More seriously, medical schools are already short of bright working-class entrants (2-5% have parents in social classes IV or V, which constitute about 30/% ofthe population'), and this financial squeeze can only act as a further disincentive. Good arguments can be produced for rethinking the whole system of student grants,2 but until that comes about the Government should think...