Chapter abstract Pierre Bourdieu coined the concept of habitus to capture the connection between embodiment, cognition, processes of singularization and temporalization, and the collective. This chapter discusses the aporias that result from this semantic ambition. It starts with a presentation of the many uses of habitus in Bourdieu’s own work; what follows is how the concept has been deployed in research by US sociologists; the third and main section of the chapter looks at the aporias provoked by the concept’s extension and the many critical avenues pursued by other scholars after it. This last section focuses less on criticisms to Bourdieu’s oeuvre and more on scholarship produced in tension with dispositional accounts of social action. The author presents six conversations that point at conceptual or semantic connections that are taken for granted in habitus and that have been examined by scholars such as Lahire, Steinmetz, Wacquant, Auyero, Elias, and Boltanski.