Rethinking the political : the sacred, aesthetic politics, and the Collège de Sociologie

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"Rethinking the political : the sacred, aesthetic politics, and the Collège de Sociologie"
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Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
Publisher
  • McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication Year
  • c2011
Book size
23 cm
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  • : pbk

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Summary: "From 1937 to 1939, a group of French intellectuals of diverse origins and disciplines gathered under the leadership of Georges Bataille and Roger Caillois to form the Collège de Sociologie. Inspired by Durkheim's theory of the sacred as the symbolic foundation of community, and having witnessed the importance of symbolic aesthetics in the rise of fascism during the interwar years, the short-lived but profoundly innovative Collège examined the possibilities for social bonds in the modern secularized era. Rethinking the Political demonstrates that the Collège de Sociologie's quest to create a new place for the sacred in modern collective life ostensibly entailed avoiding the theorization of both aesthetics and politics. While the Collège condemned manipulation by totalitarian regimes, its understanding of community also led to a rejection of democratic and communist forms of political organization, leaving the group open to accusations of flirting with fascism. Acknowledging these political ambig

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-284) and index

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