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 toda
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 co
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 orgi
