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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814203203321

Autore

Richman Michele H

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8166-9380-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Contradictions ; ; v. 14

Disciplina

301/.0944

Soggetti

Sociology - France - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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"". Michè€le 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.