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6 - What’s in a Name?

The Sacred, Science, and the Collège de Sociologie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

By
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
Edited by
Peter Kivisto
Peter Kivisto
Affiliation:
Augustana College, Illinois
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Summary

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the key figures of the Collège de sociologie. It also offers a critical discussion of the Collège’s understanding of the Durkheimian project, as well as the innovations that the group developed out of Durkheim’s theory of the social.

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author, among other publications, of Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy (1997) and Rethinking the Political: The Sacred, Aesthetic Politics, and the Collège de Sociologie (2011).

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The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory , pp. 103 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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