Durkheim the Durkheimians and the Arts

Riley, Alexander; Pickering, W.S.F.; Watts Miller, William (eds)

ISBN 10: 0857459171 / ISBN 13: 9780857459176

Published by Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford, 2013

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Study of the Durheimians' engagement with art, with focus on Durkheim and his contemporaries as well as later thinkers influenced by his work; the first five chapters consider Durkheim and his exploration of art, the remaining six look at other Durkheimian thinkers such as Mauss, Hubert, Halbwachs, Levi-Strauss, Leiris, and Bataille; Very Good and clean throughout; boards very lightly rubbed. no dustwrapper. 309pp. 8vo. Very Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Durkheim the Durkheimians and the Arts
• Publisher: Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857459171
• ISBN 13: 9780857459176
• Binding: hardbound
• Illustrator: b&w illustrations
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1 kilogram
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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.

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).

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.