Robert Hertz

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Robert Hertz (* 1881 in Saint-Cloud , Hauts-de-Seine department ; † April 13, 1915 in Marchéville-en-Woëvre , Meuse department ) was a French anthropologist and student of the French sociologists Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss . He worked for the journal L'Année Sociologique, founded by Durkheim, and specialized in the sociology of religions and folklore.

Hertz became known for his studies on the collective representation of death, the predominance of the right hand, and his unfinished doctoral thesis on sin and atonement. His last work is a study of the alpine cult of San Besso .

Some researchers, such as the historian of ideas François Dosse, consider Hertz to be the true father of Claude Lévi-Strauss' structuralism . His thinking influenced the members of the Collège de Sociologie , namely Georges Bataille , Michel Leiris and Roger Caillois , especially their acceptance of a bipolar, right and left sacral.

Fonts (selection)

  • Stephan Moebius , Christian Papilloud (ed.), Robert Parkin (preface): The sacred, the sin and the death. Religious, cultural and sociological studies . UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 2007. ISBN 978-3-89669-531-4
    • In it: Contribution to the investigation of the collective representation of death , pp. 65–180.
    • In it: The Supremacy of the Right Hand , pp. 181-218.
    • Therein: Sin and Atonement in Primitive Societies , pp. 219–287.

literature

  • Paul Lavaquery: La pêche et l'expiation dans les sociétes inférieures . In: Gradhiva , Volume 1987, Issue 2, pp. 42-52, ISSN  0764-8928
  • Frank Neubert: Transitions. Death and sin with Robert Hertz in Durckheimian sociology of religion . In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft , Vol. 12 (2004), Issue 1, pp. 61–78, ISSN  2194-508X
  • Stephan Moebius : The sorcerer's apprentices. Sociological history of the Collège de Sociologie 1937–1939 . UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 2006. ISBN 978-3-89669-532-1 . (Also habilitation thesis, University of Bremen 2005)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Original title: Contribution à une étude sur la représentation collective de la mort . EA in Année sociologique , vol. 11 (1907), issue 10.
  2. ↑ Original title: La prééminence de la main droite . EA in Revue Philosophique , 1909.
  3. ↑ Original title: Le péché et l'expiation dans les sociétés primitives . EA in Revue de l'Histoire des Religions , 1922.

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personal data
SURNAME Hertz, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertz, Robert Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French anthropologist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Cloud
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1915
Place of death Marchéville-en-Woëvre , Meuse department