Housework can be experienced as harmony between hand and object
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 (
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The main feature of Dasein’s everyday Being-in-the-world right here is that it is usually busy doing something. I don’t tend to contemplate things; I pick them up and act on them. If I hold a hammer, it is not normally to ‘stare at the hammer-Thing’, as Heidegger puts it. (He uses the lovely word das Hammerding.) It is to go to work hammering nails. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 213 (
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Sartre preferred skiing, and that experience also found its way into Being and Nothingness. Walking over a snowfield is hard work, he pointed out, but skiing over it is a delight. The snow itself changes underneath you, phenomenologically speaking; instead of presenting itself as viscous and clinging, it becomes hard and smooth. It bears you up, and you slide flowingly over it, as easily as the notes of Nausea’s jazz song. He added that he was curious about waterskiing, a new invention which he had heard of but not tried. Even on snow, you left a line of ski marks behind you; in water, you left nothing. That was the purest pleasure Sartre could imagine. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 390 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The other as object is grasped through the tool-world he organizes around himself; Bodily practice endows subjects with capacities to act in the world — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 965; A person’s mode of engaging a surface changes how that surface phenomenologically appears. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 390 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Bodily practice endows subjects with capacities to act in the world
#expands(0.80) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 965 - Everyday Being is practical engagement with tools, not detached contemplation
#expands(0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 213 - A person’s mode of engaging a surface changes how that surface phenomenologically appears.
#expands(0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 390 - Collective ways of life depend on embodied practice, not just recognition of group identity.
#corroborates(0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 868