Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the arts. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alexander Riley, W.S.F. Pickering, and William Watts Miller.
• Other Names: Riley, Alexander; Pickering, W. S. F; Miller, Willie Watts
• Contents: Introduction / Alexander Riley -- Total aesthetics: art and the elemental forms / W. Watts Miller -- Durkheim, the Arts, and the moral sword / W.S.F. Pickering -- Durkheim and festivals: art, effervescence, and institutions / Jean-Louis Fabiani -- The power of imagination and the economy of desire: Durkheim and art / Pierre-Michel Menger -- Dostoevsky in the mirror of Durkheim / Donald Nielsen -- Durkheim, LʹAnnée sociologique, and art / Marcel Fournier -- Marcel Mauss on art and aesthetics: the politics of division, isolation, and totality / Michele Richman -- Too marvelous for words ... : Maurice Halbwachs, Kansas City jazz, and the language of music / Sarah Daynes -- Total art: the influence of the Durkheim school on Claude Lévi-Strauss's reflections on art and classification / Stephan Moebius and Frithjof Nungesser -- Sex, death, the other, and art: the search for mythic life in the work of Michel Leiris / Alexander Riley -- Apophasis in representation: Georges Bataille and the aesthetics and ethics of the negative / S. Romi Mukherjee -- Acéphale/Parsifal: Georges bataille contra wagner / Claudine Frank -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 309 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.4/7; Art -- Social aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Art -- Social aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857459183
• Related ISBNs: 085745918X; 9780857459176; 0857459171
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.