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005			20240726105314.0
008			110718t20112011qucac ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aCELBN _beng _epn _erda _cCELBN _dOCLCQ _dE7B _dYDXCP _dNT _dOCLCQ _dJSTOR _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dCAUOI _dNLGGC _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dEBLCP _dDEBSZ _dOCLCO _dWAU _dOCLCO
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050	0	4	_aHM477 _b.R484 2011
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aFalasca-Zamponi, Simonetta, _d1957- _e1
245	1	0	_aRethinking the political _bthe sacred, aesthetic politics, and the Collège de Sociologie / _cSimonetta Falasca-Zamponi.
260			_aMontréal [Que. : _bMcGill-Queen's University Press, _c(c)2011.
300			_a1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : _billustrations, portraits, digital file.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; _v55
504			_a2
520	0		_a"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 ambiguities, the author goes beyond a narrow ideological reading to reveal the Collège's important contribution to our thinking about the relationships between community formation, politics, aesthetics, and the sacred in the modern world. She expands her historical account of the members' thought, including their relationship to Surrealism, beyond the group's dissolution, and shows how the work of Claude Lefort extends, but also resolves, many of the Collège's key theoretical insights. A fascinating study of some of the twentieth-century's most daring thinkers, Rethinking the Political offers crucial insights into the contradictions at play in modern notions of community that still resonate today."--Publisher's website.
505	0	0	_aIntroduction -- _tRepresenting the social: Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss -- _tAgainst aesthetics: the anthropology of objects -- _tThe avant-garde meets politics -- _tFrom contre-attaque to the collège: a headless interlude -- _tAt the collège: the social in excess -- _tPolitics at the collège -- _tRethinking the political -- _tConclusions.
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610	2	0	_aCollège de Sociologie _xHistory.
610	2	4	_aCollège de Sociologie.
650		0	_aSociology _zFrance _xHistory _y20th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=499977&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hHM. _m(c)2011 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell