ATDTDA tangent Durkheim
mikebailey at speakeasy.net
mikebailey at speakeasy.net
Sat Aug 25 07:56:23 CDT 2007
Mark and Dave were discussing earlier this month
that Durkheim might have been on Pynchon's reading list
Besides having a cool name, and inventing sociology,
I found this out about
Emile Durkheim from Wikipedia:
"France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War
had created a backlash against secular, republican
rule and many considered a vigorously nationalistic
approach to rejuvenate France's fading power. Durkheim,
a Jew with a sympathy towards socialism, was thus in
the political minority, a situation which galvanized
him politically. The Dreyfus affair of 1894 only
strengthened his activist stance."
-- we need him now - America's defeat in the Vietnam
War has created a backlash against secular,
(small r) republican rule and many [are] consider[ing]
a vigorously nationalistic approach...
(no fooling, we could use more kindly people
in general with at least a sympathy for the
motives and goals of socialism,
if only to balance out the neo-cons
and their "culture of hate")
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