On Bourdieu's "Literary Field"

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential contemporary ideologists. Structuralism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Marxism as well as classical epistemology tradition have profound influence on him.Bourdieu criticizes and inspects many a concept category and thoughtcast accepted generally ,and transforms some of them into the organic component of his own thought in a unique way up to form his own unique ideological system.Field,habitus and capital are the main concepts of Bourdieu's practical theory of society through which Bourdieu explores profound mystery in society and life and tries to exceed dual opposition in sociology and apply them to the world of literature and art creatively,of which with the help,Bourdieu forms his special"literary field"theory.Wanting to understand Bourdieu's theory and his literary field clearly ,have we to comprehend his three basic concept first:field is the independent internet space that formed after society splitted highly;habitus is the socialized open dispositions system;capital is the differential form which has metaphor meaning.Of course,Bourdieu holds a kind of open attitude when he discusses these concepts which he insists on defining in the theory's system and the course that they woke.He thinks that concept can obtain real meaning only in a system,them shouldn't be defined isolatedly.In the specific research,field,habitus and captical be related closely.Bourdieu regards social practice as the thing that is realized in given field and its special logic from the aspects that is the habit of agents and circular capital.The genesis and mature of literary field have gone through quite long course of breaking with society.Bourdieu expounds it by the process of forming French literary field,which is,concretely speaking,the process of some persons,such as Baudelaire,Flanbert pursuing the autonomy of literature and arts and oppositing the power of politics and economics to interfere literature:the emerging of Bohemia community is a key step to form literary field;the literary field broke into sub-field of limited production and sub-field of large scale production during a long term of arts fighting with money; the establishment of arts'independent standard and the creation of pure arts are the sign of the independent literary field.The literary field is a historic space structure of subjectivity and objectivity,which is a outcome of struggling in the different positions.The changing of every person's position who enter the literary field will influence the structure of field to change.The positions in the rank system are opened to agents and are occupied by them who have different habits and abilities.The independent literary field is very important to the literature and art, the dependence means to become"slave"or has a possibility of"death".When literature is corroded by kinds of strength,whether maintains its independence and how maintains its independence may be seen from the formation of literary field and its independence.The literary field has its own rule.Higher the autonomy of literary field is ,deeper the gap between the two poles of the field .Under this situation,the rule of art is established on the base of reversing the power field's and the economic field's basic principle.Why the literary field can get the autonomy is despising the usual economic profit,pursuing a kind of"reversed logic of economy"and complying whith the rule of"the lost win", which has a important enlightenment to understand related rule in literature domain.Literature follows in a principle different from universal economical logic in society,which has the homology with the social space, at the same time, has its own particularity.True literary works certainly have richly esthetic implication,so...