Collège de Sociologie

The Collège de Sociologie was founded in November 1937 by the French sociologists and philosophers Georges Bataille , Michel Leiris and Roger Caillois . The Collège existed until June 1939.

history

In addition to the three founders, there were also numerous Surrealists and non-conformist intellectuals as well as others at the Collège . a. Walter Benjamin , Hans Mayer , Alexandre Kojève , André Masson and Pierre Klossowski are involved.

The aim of the Collège was to establish a sacred sociology based on the Durkheim School and in particular on Marcel Mauss and Robert Hertz . In addition, the Collège - especially Bataille - was concerned with establishing new myths and creating communities that would put a stop to the threat of fascism . The thesis was that, above all, an individualistic society was no longer safe from fascism. The effects of the Collège extend to Michel Foucault , Jacques Derrida , Emmanuel Levinas , Jean-Luc Nancy , Michel Maffesoli and Jean Baudrillard .

Some of the members of the Collèges de Sociologie, especially Bataille, were involved in the secret society Acéphale and the magazine of the same name.

literature

Denis Hollier (Ed.): The Collège de Sociologie 1937-1939. Translated from the French by Horst Brühmann. Edited for the German edition and provided with an afterword by Irene Albers and Stephan Moebius. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3518295496 .
Carlos Marroquìn: The theory of religion of the Collège de Sociologie. From the irrational dimensions of modernity. Parerga, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-930450-81-X .
Stephan Moebius : Hans Mayer on the eve of World War II at the Collège de Sociologie . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement , vol. 44, 1, 2002 ISSN 0942-3060 pp. 75–87.
Stephan Moebius: Homme de la science, homme de l'action, homme du mythe. The internal crises of the Collège de Sociologie (1937-1939) and the days after. In: Thomas Amos u. a. (Ed.): Fantastic literature and “Pour les Sciences Humaines” Zs. Lendemains, 110/111. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-86057-974-6 , pp. 162-179 (in German and French).
Stephan Moebius: The sorcerer's apprentices. Sociological history of the Collège de Sociologie. Universitätsverlag Konstanz UVK-VG, Konstanz 2006, ISBN 3-89669-532-0 Zugl. Habilitation thesis University of Bremen 2005.

Web links

Colloquium on the theory of religion from the Collège de Sociologie. Bärbel Teubert-Seiwert, University of Leipzig , 2000
Stephan Moebius: The social functions of the sacred. Marcel Mauss and the Collège de Sociologie. In: Revue du MAUSS permanente, March 16, 2008
In English: H-France Review, March 13, 2013, № 34, Sandrine Sanos on: Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Rethinking the Political: The sacred. Aesthetic politics and the Collège de Sociologie. McGill-Queen's University Press , Montreal & Kingston 2011, ISBN 9780773539013 (especially about Bataille and Caillois)

Individual evidence

↑ Stefan Dornuf: Review of Denis Hollier: Das Collège de Sociologie 1937-1939. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 113 of May 17, 2013, p. 14.

[1] Stefan Dornuf: Review of Denis Hollier: Das Collège de Sociologie 1937-1939. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 113 of May 17, 2013, p. 14.