Behind Our Backs, Part Three

Moishe Postone on theorists of culture and society.

See Part Two of “Behind Our Backs” here.

Durkheim, Lévi-Strauss, Foucault: The Winter Quarter (Culture)

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For me, the second quarter has to do with historical change in culture. In a way, Durkheim lays the ground for it in socially grounding the Kantian categories, doing the social turn. What he does with history is unsatisfying, but it opens up the possi…