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This chapter seeks to place the theological work of Jean-Luc Marion¹ in the context of what the French sociologist, and Marion's contemporary, Pierre Bourdieu would call its field of cultural production. This notion refers to the complex web of power relations, reinforced and disseminated by the play of institutions and the play of discourses within a competitively determined social field. It defines a double space, a 'space of stances (conceived as a space of forms, styles and modes of expression as much as of contents expressed)" and a 'space of positions held by their authors".² It is Bourdieu's belief that "knowing the overall space in which they are situated enables us to put ourselves so to speak in their place in the social space".³

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14989-6_12

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