Godless intellectuals? : the intellectual pursuit of the sacred reinvented / Alexander Tristan Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Alexander.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Durkheimian school of sociology.

Poststructuralism.

Holy, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 t

Contents:

Godless Intellectuals?; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred; Chapter 2 - Intellectual Production and Interpretation: The Intellectual Habitus; Chapter 3 - The Scene of Durkheimian Sociology: A View of the Parisian Intellectual Field at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 4 - Ecoles, Masters, and The Dreyfus Affair: Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Durkheimians and the Political Affair that Positioned Them; Chapter 5 - The Scene of Poststructuralism: A View of the Parisian Intellectual Field from the End of WWII to the 1960s

Chapter 6 - Ecoles, Masters, and May 1968: Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Poststructuralists, and the Political Affair that Positioned ThemChapter 7 - Being a Durkheimian Intellectual; Chapter 8 - The Sacred in Durkheimian Thought I; Chapter 9 - The Sacred in Durkheimian Thought II: Ascetic and Mystic Durkheimianisms; Chapter 10 - The Line of Descent of the Mystics: The College de Sociologie and Critique as the Conduits to Poststructuralism; Chapter 11 - Being a Poststructuralist Intellectual; Chapter 12 - The Sacred in Poststructuralist Thought

Chapter 13 - Godless Intellectuals, Then? Or ... Something Else?Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-815-7

0-85745-821-3

1-282-62726-0

9786612627262

1-84545-826-5

OCLC:

645101926