{"product_id":"durkheim-the-durkheimians-and-the-arts-9780857459176","title":"Durkheim the Durkheimians and the Arts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...offers readers a tour of twentieth-century French intellectual history by one of the finest Durkheimian scholars writing today. At the heart of the book is Durkheim''s concept of the sacred. Yet despite the seemingly familiar starting point, Riley''s book sparkles with creative ideas, intriguing concepts, and introductions to a broad class of characters. Riley is not a historian of ideas but a sociologist and social theorist. Consequently, he frames the telling of this history with key theoretical categories, which help order a broad range of material...Part of the book''s (mystic) charm is its comprehensive and suggestive nature.    Sociology of Religion\u003cp\u003e...an important volume of original thinking that will make a significant contribution, both to a new understanding of Durkheim\/Durkheimianism and to the sociological understanding of art... The contributors are true, world-renowned experts in Durkheim and his school and his legacy.    Jeff Alexander, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The strengths of the book are the featuring of the diversity of the [Durkheim] tradition and the many lines linking broadly Durkheimian themes to current work on the arts… [It] illustrates powerfully how Durkheimian concepts live with us today and how we can benefit by comparisons with this rich tradition. Read and be inspired.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· American Journal of Sociology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The triumvirate editors have put together an imaginative set of authors, representing different generations, who have already made important contributions to recent Durheimiana.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Canadian Journal of Sociology\/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…offers readers a tour of twentieth-century French intellectual history by one of the finest Durkheimian scholars writing today. At the heart of the book is Durkheim’s concept of the sacred. Yet despite the seemingly familiar starting point, Riley’s book sparkles with creative ideas, intriguing concepts, and introductions to a broad class of characters. Riley is not a historian of ideas but a sociologist and social theorist. Consequently, he frames the telling of this history with key theoretical categories, which help order a broad range of material…Part of the book’s (mystic) charm is its comprehensive and suggestive nature.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Sociology of Religion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…an important volume of original thinking that will make a significant contribution, both to a new understanding of Durkheim\/Durkheimianism and to the sociological understanding of art…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e The contributors are true, world-renowned experts in Durkheim and his school and his legacy.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Jeff Alexander\u003c\/strong\u003e, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The essays are uniformly intensely learned and clearly written, which is a real feat in a book involving so many people.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Howie Becker\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eOutsiders\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eArt Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlexander Riley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eTotal Aesthetics: Art and \u003cem\u003eThe Elemental Forms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWilliam Watts Miller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eDurkheim, the Arts, and the Moral Sword\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eW.S.F. Pickering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Durkheim and Festivals: Art, Effervescence, and Institutions\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJean-Louis Fabiani\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Power of Imagination and the Economy of Desire: Durkheim and Art\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePierre-Michel Menger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003e Dostoevsky in the Mirror of Durkheim\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDonald A. Nielsen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Durkheim, \u003cem\u003eL’Année sociologique\u003c\/em\u003e, and Art\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarcel Fournier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eMarcel Mauss on Art and Aesthetics: The Politics of Division, Isolation, and Totality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichèle Richman    \u003c\/em\u003e       \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003e Too Marvelous for Words...: Maurice Halbwachs, Kansas City Jazz, and the Language of Music\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSarah Daynes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Total Art – The Influence of the Durkheim School on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Reflections on Art and Classification\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStephan Moebius\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand Frithjof Nungesser\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003e Sex, Death, the Other, and Art: The Search for Mythic Life in the Work of Michel Leiris\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlexander Riley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eApophasis in Representation: Georges Bataille and the Aesthetics and Ethics of the Negative\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eS. Romi Mukherjee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Acéphale\/Parsifal: Georges Bataille \u003cem\u003econtra \u003c\/em\u003eWagner\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eClaudine Frank\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038919000407,"sku":"9780857459176","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857459176.jpg?v=1750941936","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/durkheim-the-durkheimians-and-the-arts-9780857459176","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}