Sacred revolutions : Durkheim and the College de Sociologie / Michele H. Richman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richman, Michèle H.

Series:

Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 14.

Contradictions ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--France--History.

Sociology.

Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.

Durkheim, Émile.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: toward a sacred sociology

Durkheim's sociological revolution

Savages in the Sorbonne

Politics and the sacred in the College de Sociologie

Sacrifice in art and eroticism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9380-3

OCLC:

560187394