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Preface |
page ix |
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| Part I Cultural logics |
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Frantz Fanon and the living ghosts of capitalism’s world-system |
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Durkheim’s ghosts in the culture of sociologies |
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Lèvi-Strauss and the sad tropics of modern cultures |
29 |
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What is culture? Amid the flowers, seeds or weeds? |
36 |
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Paris 1907 and why the sociological imagination is always unstable |
59 |
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Sociological theory and the relativistic paradigm |
66 |
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Ferdinand de Saussure and why the social contract is a cultural arbitrary |
81 |
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Literary politics and the champ of French sociology |
87 |
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| Part II Durkheim’s ghosts |
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Marcel Mauss and Durkheim and why the ghosts of social differences are ubiquitous |
117 |
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Durkheim’s woman and the Jew as the pluperfect past of the good society |
124 |
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Jacques Derrida and why global structures had to die when they did |
144 |
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The uses of the French structuralisms |
148 |
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Gilles Deleuze and Fèlix Guattari and why structures haunt instruments and measures |
163 |
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Structures, instruments, and reading in social and cultural research (with Willard A. Nielsen, Jr.) |
166 |
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Roland Barthes and the phantasmagorias of social things |
184 |
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Language, structure, and measurement as a semiotic of differences |
188 |
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| Part III Culture as the ghost of primitive transgressions |
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Michel Foucault and why analytic categories are queer |
221 |
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Pierre Bourdieu’s aesthetic critique of sociological judgment |
227 |
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Simone de Beauvoir and why culture is a semiotics of the Other |
235 |
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Power-knowledge, discourse, and transgression (with Garth Gillan) |
241 |
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Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein and why globalization is a social geography of inequalities |
262 |
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The system of future worlds |
268 |
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Postscript: What culture is not |
283 |
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Index |
286 |
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