Godless Intellectuals? (eBook)

Alexander Tristan Riley received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 2000. Currently he is Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. He writes and teaches in the areas of cultural and social theory and cultural sociology.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred
Chapter 2. Intellectual Production and Interpretation: The Intellectual Habitus
Chapter 3. The Scene of Durkheimian Sociology: A View of the Parisian Intellectual Field at the Turn of the 19th century
Chapter 4. Écoles, Masters, and The Dreyfus Affair : Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Durkheimians and the Political Affair that Positioned Them
Chapter 5. The Scene of Poststructuralism: A View of the Parisian Intellectual Field from the End of WWII to the 1960s
Chapter 6. Écoles, Masters, and May ’68: Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Poststructuralists and the Political Affair that Positioned Them
Chapter 7. Being a Durkheimian Intellectual
Chapter 8. The Sacred in Durkheimian Thought I
Chapter 9. The Sacred in Durkheimian Thought II: Ascetic and Mystic Durkheimianisms
Chapter 10. The Descent of the Mystics: The Collège de Sociologie and Critique as the Conduits to Poststructuralism
Chapter 11. Being a Poststructuralist Intellectual
Chapter 12. The Sacred in Poststructuralist Thought
Chapter 13. Godless Intellectuals, then? Or…Something Else?