Conflitto, riconoscimento e dominio Tra John Dewey e Pierre Bourdieu

Both John Dewey and Pierre Bourdieu attribute a central role to the pre-reflective nature of individual habits and collective customs for explaining the origin of social conduct as well as the process of stabilization and reproduction of social reality. The thesis that I will try to support in this paper is that the reading of Dewey's Lectures in China can shed light on a wider set of analogies between the perspective of the American thinker and Bourdieu's ideas. Specifically, I will try to show that Dewey and Bourdieu share a similar point of view on the nature of social conflict; the role of social recognition for the analysis of social struggles; the characterization of the notion of «domination», which they both discuss in relation to the pre-reflective conditions of social actions. [Publisher's text].