Despite the crowd of television crews and academics on sabbatical packed into the air-less amphitheatre of the Collège de France to hear Pierre Bourdieu read out his last book, some of the most interesting sociology students in Paris are still at the old Sorbonne where, under a blackened painting depicting a forgotten epic scene in the Salle Durkheim, Michel Maffesoli’s séminaire de doctorat on L’Ethique de l’esthétique unfolds.
—Shields (1991, p. 1)
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