Rethinking the political : the sacred, aesthetic politics, and the Collège de Sociologie /

"From 1937 to 1939, a group of French intellectuals of diverse origins and disciplines gathered under the leadership of Georges Bataille and Roger Caillois to form the Collège de Sociologie. Inspired by Durkheim's theory of the sacred as the symbolic foundation of community, and having wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta, 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011.
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 55.
Subjects:
Collège de Sociologie > History.
Collège de Sociologie > Histoire.
Collège de Sociologie.
1900-1999
Sociology > France > History > 20th century.
Sociologie > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
Sociology.
France.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Representing the social: Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss
  • Against aesthetics: the anthropology of objects
  • The avant-garde meets politics
  • From contre-attaque to the collège: a headless interlude
  • At the collège: the social in excess
  • Politics at the collège
  • Rethinking the political
  • Conclusions.

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