Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Chapter 1 The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred 1
5. Chapter 2 Intellectual Production and Interpretation: The Intellectual Habitus 17
6. Chapter 3 The Scene of Durkheimian Sociology: A View of the Parisian Intellectual Field at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 37
7. Chapter 4 Écoles, Masters, and The Dreyfus Affair: Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Durkheimians and the Political Affair that Positioned Them 56
8. Chapter 5 The Scene of Poststructuralism: A View of the Parisian Intellectual Field from the End of WWII to the 1960s 73
9. Chapter 6 Écoles, Masters, and May 1968: Institutions and Networks that Shaped the Poststructuralists, and the Political Affair that Positioned Them 98
10. Chapter 7 Being a Durkheimian Intellectual 123
11. Chapter 8 The Sacred in Durkheimian Thought I 152
12. Chapter 9 The Sacred in Durkheimian Thought II: Ascetic and Mystic Durkheimianisms 174
13. Chapter 10 The Line of Descent of the Mystics: The Collège de Sociologie and Critique as the Conduits to Poststructuralism 201
14. Chapter 11 Being a Poststructuralist Intellectual 221
15. Chapter 12 The Sacred in Poststructuralist Thought 243
16. Chapter 13 Godless Intellectuals, Then? Or… Something Else? 269
17. Bibliography 277
18. Index 292