Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-85745-917-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 0, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

Reihe: Publications of the Durkheim Press

Using a broad definition of the Durkheimian tradition, this book offers the first systematic attempt to explore the Durkheimians’ engagement with art. It focuses on both Durkheim and his contemporaries as well as later thinkers influenced by his work. The first five chapters consider Durkheim’s own exploration of art; the remaining six look at other Durkheimian thinkers, including Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, Maurice Halbwachs, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Leiris, and Georges Bataille. The contributors—scholars from a range of theoretical orientations and disciplinary perspectives—are known for having already produced significant contributions to the study of Durkheim. This book will interest not only scholars of Durkheim and his tradition but also those concerned with aesthetic theory and the sociology and history of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riley, Alexander Tristan

Miller, William Watts

Pickering, W. S. F.

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Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Geschichte der Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Geschichte der Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Alexander Riley

Chapter 1. Total Aesthetics: Art and The Elemental Forms

William Watts Miller

Chapter 2. Durkheim, the Arts, and the Moral Sword

W.S.F. Pickering

Chapter 3. Durkheim and Festivals: Art, Effervescence, and Institutions

Jean-Louis Fabiani

Chapter 4. The Power of Imagination and the Economy of Desire: Durkheim and Art

Pierre-Michel Menger

Chapter 5.  Dostoevsky in the Mirror of Durkheim

Donald A. Nielsen

Chapter 6. Durkheim, L’Année sociologique, and Art

Marcel Fournier

Chapter 7. Marcel Mauss on Art and Aesthetics: The Politics of Division, Isolation, and Totality

Michèle Richman           

Chapter 8.  Too Marvelous for Words.: Maurice Halbwachs, Kansas City Jazz, and the Language of Music

Sarah Daynes

Chapter 9. Total Art – The Influence of the Durkheim School on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Reflections on Art and Classification

Stephan Moebius and Frithjof Nungesser

Chapter 10.  Sex, Death, the Other, and Art: The Search for Mythic Life in the Work of Michel Leiris

Alexander Riley

Chapter 11. Apophasis in Representation: Georges Bataille and the Aesthetics and Ethics of the Negative

S. Romi Mukherjee

Chapter 12. Acéphale/Parsifal: Georges Bataille contra Wagner

Claudine Frank

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pickering&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a&gt;W. S. F.
W. S. F. Pickering (1922-2016)was a retired Lecturer in sociology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1991, he helped found the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

Riley, Alexander Tristan
Alexander Tristan Riley is Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. With the aid of the late Philippe Besnard, he edited the war correspondence of Robert Hertz, Un ethnologue dans les tranchées. He is the author of Godless Intellectuals?: The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented (Berghahn Books, 2010) and currently he is contemplating a book on literary autobiography, cultural sociology, and the writing of Michel Leiris.

Miller, William Watts
William Watts Miller is editor of Durkheimian Studies/Etudes Durkheimiennes and a member of the board of the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies. He has published extensively in the field, collaborated in translations, and is a member of the team producing a new critical edition of Durkheim's Complete Works. His most recent book is A Durkheimian Quest: Solidarity and the Sacred(Berghahn Books, 2012).

Alexander Tristan Riley is Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. With the aid of the late Philippe Besnard, he edited the war correspondence of Robert Hertz, Un ethnologue dans les tranchées. He is the author of Godless Intellectuals?: The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented (Berghahn Books, 2010) and currently he is contemplating a book on literary autobiography, cultural sociology, and the writing of Michel Leiris.