| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 309 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Alexander Riley -- Total aesthetics: art and the elemental forms / W. Watts Miller -- Durkheim, the Arts, and the moral sword / W.S.F. Pickering -- Durkheim and festivals: art, effervescence, and institutions / Jean-Louis Fabiani -- The power of imagination and the economy of desire: Durkheim and art / Pierre-Michel Menger -- Dostoevsky in the mirror of Durkheim / Donald Nielsen -- Durkheim, LʹAnnée sociologique, and art / Marcel Fournier -- Marcel Mauss on art and aesthetics: the politics of division, isolation, and totality / Michele Richman -- Too marvelous for words ... : Maurice Halbwachs, Kansas City jazz, and the language of music / Sarah Daynes -- Total art: the influence of the Durkheim school on Claude Lévi-Strauss's reflections on art and classification / Stephan Moebius and Frithjof Nungesser -- Sex, death, the other, and art: the search for mythic life in the work of Michel Leiris / Alexander Riley -- Apophasis in representation: Georges Bataille and the aesthetics and ethics of the negative / S. Romi Mukherjee -- Acéphale/Parsifal: Georges bataille contra wagner / Claudine Frank -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
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 f |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
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| SUBJECT |
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917 fast |
| Subject |
Art and society.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Art and society
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Riley, Alexander, editor.
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Pickering, W. S. F., editor.
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Miller, Willie Watts, editor
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| LC no. |
2012033462 |
| ISBN |
085745918X |
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9780857459183 |
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