{"product_id":"godless-intellectuals-the-intellectual-pursuit-of-the-sacred-reinvented-9780857458056","title":"Godless Intellectuals The Intellectual Pursuit of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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  are significantly more complicated than this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“…\u003ci\u003eoffers readers a tour of twentieth-century French intellectual 10 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 15 ideas, intriguing concepts, and introductions to a broad class of characters… part of the book’s (mystic) charm is its comprehensive and suggestive nature.\u003c\/i\u003e” · \u003cb\u003eSociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“…\u003cem\u003ean innovative, timely, ambitious, rigorous and stimulating work of Durkheimian sociology and social theory about the academic, existential, and political impact of the development of a rich Durkheimian \u003c\/em\u003eculture sociologique \u003cem\u003efrom Durkheim’s day up to very recent poststructuralisms…Riley’s work is suggestive of possibilities for a renewed, empirically based, reflexive Durkheimianism\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDurkheimian Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eRiley’s treatment of the ‘sacred’ is original and informative. Scholars interested in the history of the social sciences, in the production of knowledge, and in the formation of categories like ‘intellectual’ will find much to ponder and emulate here.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthropology Review Database\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThrough a close scrutiny of an impressive archive of unpublished, untranslated, or relatively unappreciated materials, [the author] conducts his own experiment or test by probing the scholarly journals, personal correspondence, social networks, educational institutions, and contextualizing political events that provided the scenes and settings for this uniquely “intellectual” experience of the sacred.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eI recommend this book to any reader with an interest in Durkheimian sociology, intellectual history, post-structuralism or social theory. [It] extends the cultural sociology associated with Jeffrey Alexander and his colleagues to a unique exploration of one of the roots of that school of sociology. Thus, it would also make an interesting and accessible senior undergraduate course text in the sociology of knowledge, or in cultural theory.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCanadian Journal of Sociology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“Few have failed to recognize the return of the religious as a factor in social theory. None, so far, has more cogently explained the contributions of French social thought to the challenge of the Sacred in our day than Riley.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Charles Lemert\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDurkheim's Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“Alexander Riley’s radically revisionist account throws down the gauntlet to the conventional wisdom of intellectual history. Riley offers a cultural sociology of intellectuals that explores the sacred narratives that motivate their life and work...original and compelling.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Jeffrey C. Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Intellectual Production and Interpretation: The Intellectual Habitus\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Scene of Durkheimian Sociology: A View of the Parisian Intellectual Field at the Turn of the 19th century\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eÉcoles, Masters, and The Dreyfus Affair : Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Durkheimians and the Political Affair that Positioned Them\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Scene of Poststructuralism: A View of the Parisian Intellectual Field from the End of WWII to the 1960s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Écoles, Masters, and May ’68: Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Poststructuralists and the Political Affair that Positioned Them\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eBeing a Durkheimian Intellectual\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Sacred in Durkheimian Thought I\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Sacred in Durkheimian Thought II: Ascetic and Mystic Durkheimianisms\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Descent of the Mystics: The Collège de Sociologie and Critique as the Conduits to Poststructuralism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eBeing a Poststructuralist Intellectual\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Sacred in Poststructuralist Thought\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Godless Intellectuals, then? 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