Godless Intellectuals? : : The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented / / Alexander Tristan Riley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Riley, Alexander Tristan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

The Durkheimians have traditionally been understood as positivist, secular thinkers, fully within the Enlightenment project of limitless reason and progress. In a radical revision of this view, this book persuasively argues that the core members of the Durkheimian circle (Durkheim himself, Marcel Ma...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred
• Chapter 2 Intellectual Production and Interpretation: The Intellectual Habitus
• Chapter 3 The Scene of Durkheimian Sociology: A View of the Parisian Intellectual Field at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 4 Écoles, Masters, and The Dreyfus Affair: Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Durkheimians and the Political Affair that Positioned Them
• Chapter 5 The Scene of Poststructuralism: A View of the Parisian Intellectual Field from the End of WWII to the 1960s
• Chapter 6 Écoles, Masters, and May 1968: Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Poststructuralists, and the Political Affair that Positioned Them
• Chapter 7 Being a Durkheimian Intellectual
• Chapter 8 The Sacred in Durkheimian Thought I
• Chapter 9 The Sacred in Durkheimian Thought II: Ascetic and Mystic Durkheimianisms
• Chapter 10 The Line of Descent of the Mystics: The Collège de Sociologie and Critique as the Conduits to Poststructuralism
• Chapter 11 Being a Poststructuralist Intellectual
• Chapter 12 The Sacred in Poststructuralist Thought
• Chapter 13 Godless Intellectuals, Then? Or… Something Else?
• Bibliography
• Index