Sacred Revolutions : Durkheim and the Collège de Sociologie.
Title:
Sacred Revolutions : Durkheim and the Collège de Sociologie.
Author:
Richman, Michèle H.
ISBN:
9780816693801
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Series:
Contradictions ; v.14
Contradictions
Contents:
Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Sociology? -- 1. Durkheim's Sociological Revolution -- 2. Savages in the Sorbonne -- 3. Politics and the Sacred in the Collège de Sociologie -- 4. Sacrifice in Art and Eroticism -- Postscriptum: Effervescence from May '68 to the Present -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
It seems improbable, but the most radical cultural iconoclasts of the interwar years-Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Michel Leiris-responded to the rise of fascism by taking refuge in a "sacred sociology". Michèle H. Richman examines this seemingly paradoxical development in this book which traces the overall implications for French social thought of the "ethnographic detour" that began with Durkheim's interest in Australian aboriginal religion-implications that reach back to the Revolution of 1789 and forward to the student protests of May 1968.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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