Norbert Elias's Lost Research: Revisiting the Young Worker Project

Affectivity And The Social Bond Offers A Fresh And Original Perspective On The Relationship Between Affectivity And Transcendence In Nineteenth And Twentieth Century French Social Theory. Engaging In A Conceptual Analysis Of The Works Of Comte, Durkheim, Bataille And Girard, This Book Exposes A Major Transformation Brought About By The Sociological Gaze In Understandings Of Affectivity And Its Relationship To Both Sociality And Transcendence In Nineteenth Century Social Thought: The Ambivalence Between The Transcendence Of The Social And The Immanence Of Affective Experience. Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Auguste Comte : Passion Sublimated Into Love -- Émile Durkheim : Passion Transformed Into Force And Symbol -- Georges Bataille And The Accursed Part Of Affectivity -- René Girard And The Mimetic Desire -- Conclusion -- References -- Index. Tiina Arppe. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 229-244) And Index.