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1 online resource (x, 298 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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The Durkheimians have traditionally been understood as positivist, secular thinkers, fully within the Enlightenment project of limitless reason and progress. In a radical revision of this view, this book persuasively argues that the core members of the Durkheimian circle (Durkheim himself, Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz) are significantly more complicated than this. Through his extensive analysis of large volumes of correspondence as well as historical and macro-sociological mappings of the intellectual and social worlds in which the Durkheimian project emerged, the author shows the Durkheimian project to have constituted a quasi-religious quest in ways much deeper than most interpreters have thought. Their fascination, both personal and intellectual, with the sacred is the basis on which the author reconstructs some important components of modern French intellectual history, connecting Durkheimian thought to key representatives of French poststructuralism and postmodernism: Bataille, Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Deleuze. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The intellectual pursuit of the sacred -- Intellectual production and interpretation: the intellectual habitus --The scene of Durkheimian sociology: a view of the Parisian intellectual field at the turn of the nineteenth century -- Écoles, masters, and the Dreyfus affair: institutions and networks that shaped the Durkheimians and the political affair that positioned them -- The scene of poststructuralism: a view of the Parisian intellectual field from the end of WWII to the 1960s -- Écoles, masters, and May 1968: institutions and networks that shaped the poststructuralists, and the political affair that positioned them -- Being a Durkheimian intellectual -- The sacred in Durkheimian thought I -- The sacred in Durkheimian thought II: ascetic and mystic Durkheimianisms -- The line of descent of the mystics: the Collège de Sociologie and critique as the conduits to poststructuralism -- Being a poststructuralist intellectual -- The sacred in poststructuralist thought -- Godless intellectuals, then? Or ... something else? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Durkheimian school of sociology.
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Durkheimian school of sociology. |
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Poststructuralism.
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Poststructuralism. |
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Holy, The.
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Holy, The. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Riley, Alexander. Godless intellectuals? New York : Berghahn Books, 2010 9781845456702 (DLC) 2010006673 (OCoLC)437298819 |
| ISBN |
9781845458263 (electronic book) |
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1845458265 (electronic book) |
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9781845456702 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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184545670X (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780857458056 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0857458051 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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