%0 Journal Article
%T Narrative Identity against Biographical Illusion: The Shift in Sociology from Bourdieu to Ric ur
%A G¨¦r£¿me Truc
%J ¨¦tudes Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies
%D 2011
%I University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
%R 10.5195/errs.2011.51
%X Since the publication of Oneself as Another, many sociologists have referred to the work of Paul Ric ur, some of them considering his notion of narrative identity to be a useful means of analyzing some aspects individual identity left unresolved by Bourdieu¡¯s notion of habitus. Bourdieu had, however, already discredited the sociological relevance of the notion of narrative in his 1986 article ¡°The Biographical Illusion.¡± Through a careful re-reading of both texts, this article will determine to what extent the sociological use of Ric ur¡¯s notions can escape the confines of Bourdieu¡¯s analysis and, moreover, the different conceptions of the human being and of ethics underlying the two distinct frameworks of analysis.
%K Personal Identity
%K Narrative Identity
%K Biographical Illusion
%K Pierre Bourdieu
%K Sociology
%U http://ricoeur.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ricoeur/article/view/51