Sacred Revolutions: Durkheim and the Collège de Sociologie
ISBN: 9780816693801
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Durkheim Emile 1858–1917; Sociology -- France -- History;

It seems improbable, but the most radical cultural iconoclasts of the interwar yearsOCoGeorges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Michel LeirisOCoresponded to the rise of fascism by taking refuge in a sacred sociology. Mich le H. Richman examines this seemingly paradoxical development in this book which traces the overall implications for French social thought of the ethnographic detour that began with DurkheimOCOs interest in Australian aboriginal religionOCoimplications that reach back to the Revolution of 1789 and forward to the student protests of May 1968."


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