Very much looking forward to this project’s fruition. I’m pretty interested in Mauss’ legacy as far as ontology and epistemology go, not necessarily as confined to social anthropology per say, maybe somewhat, but more in his influence on those philosophical ethnologists who were and are interested in critiquing culture as a plastic idiom of banal difference and a scaffolding for the rejection of radical alterity. Folks like Klossowski and Clastres, Baudrillard and Virilio.
Thank you. Mauss was not a social anthropologist, but rather started out as a Durkheimian sociologist; after the war he was an encyclopedic interdisciplinary humanist who founded French socio-cultural anthropology and was professor of sociology in the College de France. Part two seeks to situate him in the history of social thought as an opponent of modern academic bureaucracy whose relevance for the current political, economic and intellectual crisis should be much better understood. It is a short book aimed at students and the general public, not principally for scholars, but I hope including some of them too.
Very much looking forward to this project’s fruition. I’m pretty interested in Mauss’ legacy as far as ontology and epistemology go, not necessarily as confined to social anthropology per say, maybe somewhat, but more in his influence on those philosophical ethnologists who were and are interested in critiquing culture as a plastic idiom of banal difference and a scaffolding for the rejection of radical alterity. Folks like Klossowski and Clastres, Baudrillard and Virilio.
Thank you. Mauss was not a social anthropologist, but rather started out as a Durkheimian sociologist; after the war he was an encyclopedic interdisciplinary humanist who founded French socio-cultural anthropology and was professor of sociology in the College de France. Part two seeks to situate him in the history of social thought as an opponent of modern academic bureaucracy whose relevance for the current political, economic and intellectual crisis should be much better understood. It is a short book aimed at students and the general public, not principally for scholars, but I hope including some of them too.