Tiina Arppe

Affectivity and the Social Bond

Transcendence, Economy and Violence in French Social Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Affectivity and the Social Bond offers a fresh and original perspective on the relationship between affectivity and transcendence in nineteenth and twentieth century French social theory. Engaging in a conceptual analysis of the works of Comte, Durkheim, Bataille and Girard, this book exposes a major transformation brought about by the sociological gaze in understandings of affectivity and its relationship to both sociality and transcendence in nineteenth century social thought: the ambivalence between the transcendence of the social and the immanence of affective experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781409431824
• ISBN-10: 1409431827
• Artikelnr.: 41250074

Autorenporträt

Tiina Arppe is a researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has written extensively about Rousseau, Durkheim, Mauss, Bataille, Baudrillard and Girard and is author of two volumes on the sacred in French social theory and the problem of evil in French social theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Auguste Comte: passion sublimated into love
ÿmile Durkheim: passion transformed into force and symbol
Georges Bataille and the accursed part of affectivity
René Girard and the mimetic desire
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.