RafaelFajardo

I have nad this notion of the social nature of the ‘habitus’ for many years. Please note that I use the Latin word – it should be understand in France – habitus. The word translates infinitely better than ‘habitude’ (habit or custom), the ‘exis’, the ‘acquired ability’ and ‘faculty’ of Aristole (who was a psychologist). It does not designate those metaphysical habitudes, that mysterious ‘memory’, the subjects of volumes or short and famous theses. These ‘habits’ do not just vary with individuals and their imitations, they cary especially between societies, educations, proprieties and fashions, prestiges. In them we should see the techniques and work of collect and individual practical reason rather than, in the ordinary way, merely the soul and its repetitive faculties.