Един исторически казус под микроскопа на практическата логика: случаят „Хуго Капет“
A Historical Case Viewed through the Microscope of Practical Logic: The Hugo Capet Case

Summary/Abstract: Using as a background the problem field of discursive performativity developed by Austin, the paper aims at presenting a novel dimension, but one actually implied by Austin: namely that of bodily performativity. The proposed notion of „bodily performative“, considered through a structural analogy with Austin’s discursive performatives as an action differing from the mere doing of something, is elaborated through practice-logical analysis of its occurrences, the actions made visible in the considered historical case. In the context of Bourdieu’s discursive modalities, gesture as a conventional bodily technique, performed in a conventional social setting, is understood as an explicit manifestation of bodily performativity in the social conditions of orthodoxality. In a state of doxastic attitude towards the world, bodily performativity manifests itself as unconscious „bodily autoperformativity“, a result of the incorporation of conventional behavioural norms: a process in which body acts performatively upon itself. In conditions of heterodoxy, i.e. when the socially built and incorporated behavioural conventions are lacking, given actions hindering the performance of conventional actions manifest themselves as performatives; in the examined case the analyzed unconventional action carries the illocutive force of baptism.

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