Narrative Identity against Biographical Illusion

The Shift in Sociology from Bourdieu to Ricœur

Bibliographic Data

ID7103086
AuthorsGérôme Truc (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume2
Issue1
Pages150-167
Publication date2011-06-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueÉtudes Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2156-7808 • E-ISSN: 2156-7808
PublisherUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5195/errs.2011.51
OpenAlexW2069054284
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited2

Since the publication of Oneself as Another, many sociologists have referred to the work of Paul Ricœur, 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 Ricœur’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

Aesthetics · Cultural capital · Epistemology · Habitus · Identity (music · Illusion · Linguistics · Narrative · Narrative identity · Reading (process · Relevance · Relevance (law · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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