In this important and stylish book, Michel Maffesoli argues that it is impossible to reduce knowledge to a conception of science inherited from the nineteenth century. Instead, he argues, we must go beyond intellectual conformities based on limited and archaic moral or political foundations. This approach emphasizes the growing importance of information and communication in modern societies.  Maffesoli suggests that sociologists have too often succumbed to the "positivist fascination" of analytical formalism and dualistic thinking. Rather than viewing society as a finished product, he develops an approach which seeks to analyse, in all their nuances and contradictions, the new forms of social life - particularly everyday life - which are beginning to emerge in the late twentieth century.   A timely contribution to current debates, Ordinary Knowledge will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociology and social theory.

Ordinary Knowledge: An Introduction to Interpretative Sociology

Politics & Social Sciences

MAFFESOLI, Michel

Social Sciences

Polity

The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

In this exciting book Michel Maffesoli argues that the conventional approaches to understanding solidarity and society are deeply flawed. He contends that mass culture has disintegrated and that today social existence is conducted through fragmented tribal groupings, organized around the catchwords, brand-names and sound-bites of consumer culture. The book provides a rich backcloth against which to consider the rise of `identity politics′ and the `proliferation of lifestyle cultures′.

Sage Publications Ltd.

Contemplation Of The World: Figures of Community Style

In The Contemplation of the World, eminent French theorist Michel Maffesoli pursues and extends his project of decoding contemporary societies. Here, Maffesoli questions afresh the mundane stuff of contemporary sociality, seeking to discern its primary mode of expression - its forms, style, rules, and principles - its aesthetics. The advent of postmodernity marks the beginning of "the society of the image." It is as if the fragmentation of the social has gradually and necessarily corresponded to massive crumbling of our representations of the real and resulted in their infinite refraction. Henceforward we are living in the heart of an ever-increasing entanglement of objects, signs, and images. Located somewhere between dream and reality, we are the unfettered prisoners of a symbolic universe of growing opacity and mysterious meanings. In The Contemplation of the World, Maffesoli seeks to explore those unobtrusive links that regulate and organize the ensemble of our representations - the raw material refashioned in our imaginary and our fantasies - exploring what it is that is recognizably "postmodern" about them. Maffesoli proposes a map of "the vast domain of the collective imaginary," allowing us to better understand where today's culture stands and helping us to perceive within its clamorous confines the outlines, still frail, of a "community ideal."

Humor & Entertainment

Univ. of Minnesota Press

In The Contemplation of the World, eminent French theorist Michel Maffesoli pursues and extends his project of decoding contemporary societies. Here, Maffesoli questions afresh the mundane stuff of contemporary sociality, seeking to discern its primary mode of expression - its forms, style, rules, and principles - its aesthetics.The advent of postmodernity marks the beginning of "the society of the image." It is as if the fragmentation of the social has gradually and necessarily corresponded to massive crumbling of our representations of the real and resulted in their infinite refraction. Henceforward we are living in the heart of an ever-increasing entanglement of objects, signs, and images. Located somewhere between dream and reality, we are the unfettered prisoners of a symbolic universe of growing opacity and mysterious meanings.In The Contemplation of the World, Maffesoli seeks to explore those unobtrusive links that regulate and organize the ensemble of our representations - the raw material refashioned in our imaginary and our fantasies - exploring what it is that is recognizably "postmodern" about them. Maffesoli proposes a map of "the vast domain of the collective imaginary," allowing us to better understand where today's culture stands and helping us to perceive within its clamorous confines the outlines, still frail, of a "community ideal."

Philosophy

L'ERE DES SOULEVEMENTS

STROHL HELENE

CERF

La conquête du présent: Pour une sociologique de la quotidienne

Maffesoli (sociology, RenT Descartes U., the Sorbonne) offers a postmodern inquiry into the social significance of the orgy, realizing that it is just an initial foray into the topic. Considering orgiasm both as the celebration of an orgy, and as the state of excited or exalted feeling (not the same

L'ombre de Dionysos

Social Sciences (1991) - Michel MAFFESOLI Le Temps des tribus - Le déclin de l'individualisme dans les sociétés de masse - Le LIVRE DE POCHE Biblio essais n° 4142/LP12

Le Temps Des Tribus

Livre De Poche French

Le temps des tribus: Le déclin de l'individualisme dans les sociétés postmodernes

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Ordinary Knowledge: An Introduction to Interpretative Sociology

The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Contemplation Of The World: Figures of Community Style

Contemplation Of The World: Figures of Community Style

L'ERE DES SOULEVEMENTS

La conquête du présent: Pour une sociologique de la quotidienne

L'ombre de Dionysos

Le Temps Des Tribus

Le temps des tribus: Le déclin de l'individualisme dans les sociétés postmodernes