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DUKUEN, Juan. A foundation based on "Merleau-Ponty" for Bourdieu's methodological approach in Algeria. Convergencia [online]. 2015, vol.22, n.68, pp.97-124. ISSN 2448-5799.

The purpose of this paper is to show that Bourdieu's first methodological approach to overcome Dilthey's opposition between "explain and understand" has a misrecognized basis in the remarks by Merleau-Ponty on the same topic. We will verify that this is understandable if one considers that Bourdieu was trained as a philosopher in the framework of learning oriented toward the phenomenological tradition and that such "philosophical cultural capital" works in his first methodological experimentation in the passage from philosophy to socio-anthropology in Algeria (1957-1964). This will show that although the thesis on "explain and understand" reappears in The Weight of the World 30 years later, it does not respond to a wink of accommodation to "postmodernism", but to a methodological approach that is a clear development from the beginning of Bourdieu's reflections on the statute of social sciences.

Palavras-chave : Bourdieu; Merleau-Ponty; methodology; understand; Anthropology.