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Sacred Revolutions
Michele H. Richman
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Description for Sacred Revolutions
paperback. Series: Contradictions S. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
Explores the role of the sacred in the response of French intellectuals to the rise of fascism during the 1930s
How is it that the most radical cultural iconoclasts of the interwar years—Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Michel Leiris—could have responded to the rise of fascism by taking refuge in a "sacred sociology"? This is the question that Michèle H. Richman poses in a work that examines this seemingly paradoxical development. Her book traces the overall implications for French social thought of the "ethnographic detour" that began with Durkheim’s interest in Australian aboriginal religion—implications that reach back to the Revolution of ... Read more
Richman argues that by revising a phenomenon at once as familiar and as exotic as the sacred, these intellectuals forged a point of view relevant to politics, art, and eroticism in the modern period. Assimilating sociology to this revised notion of the sacred, they revitalized a critical discourse based on anthropological thinking dating back to Montaigne and culminating in Rousseau. Her work thus supplies an important chapter in the history of the human sciences while demonstrating the formation of an innovative critical discourse that straddles literary theory, social thought, and religious and cultural studies. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Contradictions S.
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816639748
SKU
V9780816639748
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About Michele H. Richman
Michèle H. Richman is associate professor of French studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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