Godless Intellectuals?

The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-805-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

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 the Durkheimian project to have constituted a quasi-religious quest in ways much deeper than most interpreters have thought. Their fascination, both personal and intellectual, with the sacred is the basis on which the author reconstructs some important components of modern French intellectual history, connecting Durkheimian thought to key representatives of French poststructuralism and postmodernism: Bataille, Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Deleuze.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riley, Alexander Tristan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Postmoderne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 19th century

Chapter 4. Écoles, 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. Écoles, Masters, and May ’68: Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Poststructuralists and the Political Affair that Positioned Them

Chapter 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 Descent of the Mystics: The Collège 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?

Über Autor(innen)

Riley, Alexander Tristan
Alexander Tristan Riley received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 2000. Currently he is Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. He writes and teaches in the areas of cultural and social theory and cultural sociology.

Alexander Tristan Riley received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 2000. Currently he is Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. He writes and teaches in the areas of cultural and social theory and cultural sociology.