文档介绍：On the Cunning of Imperialist
Reason
Pierre Bourdieu and Lore Waequant
ULTURAL IMPERIALISM RESTS on the power to universalize
particularisms linked to a singular historical tradition by causing
Cthem to be misrecognized as Thus, just as in the 19th century
a certain number of supposedly philosophical questions being debated as
universal throughout Europe and beyond originated, as Fritz Ringer (1969)
has brilliantly shown, in the historical particularities (and conflicts) proper
to the singular universe of German academics, so today numerous topics
directly issuing from the intellectual confrontations relating to the social
particularity of American society and of its universities have been imposed,
in apparently de-historicized form, upon the whole . mon•
places, in the Aristotelian sense of notions or theses with which one argues
but about which one does not argue, or, put another way, these presupposi•
tions of discussion which remain undiscussed, owe much of their power to
convince to the fact that, circulating from academic conferences to "bestsel•
ling books, from semi-scholarly journals to expert's evaluations, from
commission reports to magazine covers, they are present everywhere
simultaneously, from Berlin to Tokyo and from Milan to Mexico, and are
powerfully supported and relayed by those allegedly neutral channels that
are anizations (such as the OECD or the European
Commission) and public policy think tanks (such as the Adam Smith
Institute and the Saint-Simon Foundation).2
The neutralization of the historical context resulting from the interna•
tional circulation of texts and from the correlative forgetting of their
originating historical conditions produces an apparent universalization
further abetted by the work of 'theorization'. A kind of fictional axiomatiza•
tion fit to produce the illusion of a pure genesis, the game of preliminary
• Theory, Culture & Society 1999 (SAGE, London, Tho