edited by Alexander Riley, W.S.F. Pickering, and Willie Watts Miller
New York :
Berghahn,
2013
vi, 309 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
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