Oikonomia, entre champ économique, champ politique et champ philosophique en Grèce ancienne. Méditations bourdieusiennes sur l' Économique de Xénophon

Christophe Pébarthe

Revue française de socio-Economie, 2014, vol. n° 13, issue 1, 67-84

Abstract: In Pierre Bourdieu?s sociology, the market system is associated with the existence of an economical field where the economic interest rules the human actions, different of other fields, in particular the philosophical one, where the selflessness does reign. Yet, if philosophy was born during the fifth century B.C. with Socrates and Plato, Pierre Bourdieu considers that the economical field reaches a high degree of autonomy only during the eighteenth century A.D. A renewed reading of Xenophon Oeconomicus (first part of the fourth century B.C.) by taking into account the intellectual field contemporary of the author, allows to put forward a new conception of the division of labour and to show that the ancient Athenian society was a differentiated society.

Keywords: Xenophon; oikonomia; philosophy; ancient economy; division of labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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