She also argues that habitus underwent characteristic if gradual, almost imperceptible shifts before and after unification. The book is divided into two sections covering the decade or so preceding the formation of the Second Empire and the two decades following. Each section is divided into two parts. The first outlines the political background and the various forms of political nationalism. The novel argument is appropriate to its subject, which links physical discipline, masculinity, and national virtue.
Freedom is moral autonomy requiring free submission to discipline.
The national habitus of the gymnastic movement thus took on an increasingly authoritarian, ethnic, and militarist form. Goltermann's principal sources are public rhetoric and display. One can easily envisage motives and consequences other than those rhetorically projected. I would need to know a lot more about the routines and drills than Goltermann provides to be persuaded. Above all, I would want the analysis situated, as Bourdieu's theory requires, within a broader social and political context.