In this major work, Bourdieu pushes the critique of scholastic
reason to a point which most questionings leave untouched, making
explicit the presuppositions entailed by the situation of "skhole,"
the free time, liberated from the urgencies of the world, that
allows a free and liberated relation to the world. And it is
philosophers who, not content with engaging these presuppositions
in their practice, have brought them into the order of discourse,
not so much to analyse them as to legitimate them.
This critique of scholastic reason can be made in the name of
Pascal because his thought expressed the features of human
existence which the scholastic outlook ignores - his concern with
symbolic power, his refusal of the ambition of foundation, his
attention, devoid of all populist naivety, to 'ordinary people' and
his determination to seek the "raison d'etre" of the seemingly most
illogical behaviour rather than condemning or mocking it. Through
this Pascalian critique, Bourdieu charts a negative philosophy
which calls into question our most fundamental presuppositions and
renews the traditional interrogation of violence, power, time,
history, the universal and even the purpose and direction of
existence, with a debt to the heretical philosophers such as
Wittgenstein, Austin, Dewey and Peirce.
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