Affectivity and the Social Bond: Transcendence, Economy and Violence in French Social Theory (Rethinking Classical Sociology) - Softcover

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Arppe, Tiina

 
9780367601041: Affectivity and the Social Bond: Transcendence, Economy and Violence in French Social Theory (Rethinking Classical Sociology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367601044 ISBN 13: 9780367601041
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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. Revealing the manner in which questions of violence and economy are intertwined in the sociological analysis of affectivity, Affectivity and the Social Bond reflects upon the problem of controlling affectivity, alongside the political implications and possible dangers of a sociological model which seeks the roots of the social bond first and foremost in the affective realm. A rigorous engagement with the classics of French social theory, their treatment of human affectivity and its relationship to social integration and regulation, this book will appeal not only to sociologists and social theorists, but also to those with interests in social and political philosophy and the history of ideas.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367601044
ISBN 13 
9780367601041
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256

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