Abstract
Pierre Bourdieu's sociology has been consistently accused of being deterministic and reproductivist, mainly because of the way in which the concept of habitus was theorized. For this reason, his readers have often striven to retrieve vestiges and margins of freedom in his works. In this context, reflexivity appears as a basic principle for a non-deterministic nor reproductivist reading of the Bourdieusian thinking. In this attempt, at least three theoretical possibilities have been proposed: sociological reflexivity, the concept of hysteresis and the existence of cleaved habitus. However, the present article starts from the limitations of such vestiges and points to a still unexplored path: the aesthetic dimension. Two paths will be fundamental: (i) the craft of the artist; (ii) the aesthetic experience. Based on both, we will try to think about the relationship between habitus, aesthetics, freedom and reflexivity.
Keywords:
Habitus; aesthetics; taste; artist; reflexivity