Une loyauté précaire. L’esprit de corps chez Bourdieu et Spinoza
Looking at the esprit de corps in the light of Bourdieu and Spinoza’s work gives an account of the phenomenon of loyalty based on social (habitus) and affective dispositions. In this matter, the Bourdieusian reference to Pascal is undoubtedly the most significant and assumed. Allusions to Spinoza, w...
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École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
2025-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/asterion/11382 |
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| Summary: | Looking at the esprit de corps in the light of Bourdieu and Spinoza’s work gives an account of the phenomenon of loyalty based on social (habitus) and affective dispositions. In this matter, the Bourdieusian reference to Pascal is undoubtedly the most significant and assumed. Allusions to Spinoza, which are quite frequent, are often only strategic or circumstantial borrowings. However, a detour through a Spinozist analysis of the affective – which does not mean psychological – motives behind the esprit de corps not only helps to highlight what loyalty owes to passions but also to reveal the precariousness of this loyalty, for this very reason. Such a detour leads to a fresh and different reading of Bourdieu’s analyses, particularly in La noblesse d’État. Far from being the thinker of pure reproduction, he is attentive to the threat of disintegration facing by social bodies and institutions. |
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| ISSN: | 1762-6110 |