The College of Sociology 1937-39

by Denis Hollier (Editor)

English, French (translation)

Genres: Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, Nonfiction, France, Theory

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Denis Hollier is a scholar of French language and culture. He is the editor of A New History of French Literature, Literary Debate: Texts and Contexts—Postwar French Thought, Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille, and many other scholarly collections. He currently teaches at NYU.

Reviews

[Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yea, I think Bataille gets Hegel completely wrong in this essay - basically laying the foundations for Kojeve's misreadings - and 50 years of anti-hegelian 'end of history' bs out of french theory circles - which, goes against the way Hegel viewed absolute history/abolute mind - Hegel never said history woudl 'end' but that the end culminates in a new process of overturning (the end is a new beginning) - anyway, this book is kind of a novelty in that its out of print, kind of hard to get, which means it fetches over a $100 dollars for a hardbound edition...other than that, its poor writing, and poor research by famous people, which means it is still studied as gospel.

[Lance Grabmiller · Rating 3 out of 5]

The complete documents from the short-lived College of Sociology, mostly in lectures (some only surviving in note or outline form). Works by George Bataille, Roger Caillois, René Guastalla, Pierre Klossowski, Alexandre Kojève, Michel Leiris, Anatole Lewitzky, Hans Meyer, Jean Paulhan, Denis de Rougemont, Jean Wahl and others. Nicely notated throughout. Essential document on what a certain group of French intellectuals were thinking between the implosion of the Surrealist movement and the explosion of World War II.

[Mahmoud Amr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bataille and Caillois were pathetic larpers lmfao!

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

of interest to you, Aline, given your Bergson?