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| Author(s): |
Júlia Vilaça Goyatá
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-11-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Fernanda Arêas Peixoto;
Renato Sztutman;
Mariza Martins Furquim Werneck
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| Advisor: | Fernanda Arêas Peixoto |
| Abstract | |
The sacred has been a central subject of anthropological investigations since its origins. This research proposes an approach to the concept through the eyes of George Bataille (1897-1962) and Michel Leiris (1901-1990) in 1930s France, having in sight the crossing of their intellectual experiences and their theoretical formulations. We assume the sacred sociology, proposed by both authors during the years of the Collège de Sociologie (1937-1939), as a starting point to claim the use of the sacred in a double framing: functioning as an explanatory concept, it would also work as a praxis, a way of seeing and acting upon the world. Amid the debates of the time, undertook by intellectuals and the avant-garde movements about the possible paths of political actions and its connections with art forms, the sacred appears in the works of Bataille and Leiris as a striking alternative. The goal is to retrace a tradition of debates involving the concept through both authors formulations at the same time radical and original , showing how they relate, each in their own way, with the former social theory. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/02834-8 - Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris: the experience of sacred (1930-1940) |
| Grantee: | Júlia Vilaça Goyatá |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |