Dalle pratiche economiche all'economia delle pratiche: Ragion sufficiente e storicità nell'antropologia economica di Bourdieu

The article explores the ontological and epistemological dimensions of Bourdieu's economic anthropology as it has been built upon the distinction between a general economy of practices and economic practices. Through a reconstruction of Bourdieu's account of Kabile economy in its intertwining of symbolic and material components, a great focus is given to the philosophical reasons why Bourdieu liberalizes some economic concepts (in particular, interest and capital) to the scope of shaping a general theory of action and its social conditions of possibility, within which purely economic actions and relations can count only as particular cases.