Bodily practice endows subjects with capacities to act in the world

Evidence

One result of Bourdieu’s neglect of the manner and process by which a person comes to acquire a habitus is that we lose a sense of how specifi con.. ceptions of the self ( there may be different ones that inhabit the space of a single culture) require diff rent kinds of bodily capacities. In contrast, the Aristotelian notion of habitus forces us to problematize how specifi kinds of bodily practice come to articulate diff rent conceptions of the ethical subject, and how bodily form does not simply express the social structure but also en.. dows the self with particular capacities through which the subject comes to enact the world. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 965

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that bodily form doesn’t merely express structure but actively endows the self with world-enacting capacities reframes embodiment as productive.
• XREF: connects to: The body is constituted as the totality of its meaningful relations to the world; Everyday bodily actions resist full description yet come to us effortlessly — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 727; Housework can be experienced as harmony between hand and object (+2 more)