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Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."

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For sure! Curious how it goes -- strong professional interest in Sorel, but teaching him indeed is tricky.

05.03.2026 18:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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02.03.2026 11:49 👍 25 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 2

what Sorel are you assigning?

05.03.2026 05:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

05.03.2026 04:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Clemenceau is eaten.

05.03.2026 04:54 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
drawing of a man in a suit with a whip to the left, a mass of smaller humans to the right.

drawing of a man in a suit with a whip to the left, a mass of smaller humans to the right.

Clemenceau tames the Chamber of Deputies.

05.03.2026 04:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,

05.03.2026 04:49 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

yeah her hair is in some sort of interesting bun

04.03.2026 04:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

looool

04.03.2026 04:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
b&w photograph of a man standing in a swimsuit, facing the camera. a woman sitting, more fully dressed, looking at him.

b&w photograph of a man standing in a swimsuit, facing the camera. a woman sitting, more fully dressed, looking at him.

i wonder what this photograph is about. Herbert List. “Capri Flirt I,” 1936. www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

04.03.2026 04:12 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2

really good description of this album

04.03.2026 03:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

True. Also true that I should know a lot more than I offhand do about enrollment at the sorbonne. These courses pictured here were not, I think, fully public.

03.03.2026 21:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's a picture of Gustave Lanson as well, who was a literary scholar -- he's in a bigger auditorium, lots of ladies.

03.03.2026 21:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No sense of the specifics here, but Bouglé was also a sociologist, student of Durkheim -- did a lot more public lecturing and topical writing than Durkheim, though. Andler was a Germanist!

03.03.2026 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

tarte soleil of some kind! but it's for a crowd.

03.03.2026 21:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OK looking at a few of the others from the same room, the women are there! You can even I think see some of the same faces. Especially Bougle nubis.bis-sorbonne.fr/ark:/15733/qnb and Andler nubis.bis-sorbonne.fr/ark:/15733/qks

03.03.2026 21:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

an incredible sociological and sartorial document

03.03.2026 21:07 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Kind of a good number of them actually --

03.03.2026 21:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I spent a little while trying to find someone under the coats. like a hand or face sticking out, but no, just coats.

03.03.2026 21:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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La Sorbonne. Cours de M. le professeur Dur[kheim] - NuBIS | Bibliothèque Numérique de la BIS Aucune description disponible

Highly zoomable version at source nubis.bis-sorbonne.fr/ark:/15733/r1m

03.03.2026 21:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
black and white photograph of an auditorium full of people, many looking at the camera. it's a postcard. "Paris - La Sorbonne, Cours de M le Professeur Durkheim"

black and white photograph of an auditorium full of people, many looking at the camera. it's a postcard. "Paris - La Sorbonne, Cours de M le Professeur Durkheim"

Another real tag yourself situation

03.03.2026 20:59 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 2

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

03.03.2026 15:28 👍 4667 🔁 912 💬 50 📌 35
It is not at all as a man that I have spoken of the necessarily myste-rious character of the sexual act; but... exclusively as a sociologist. I am conscious that I do not owe to education the sentiment that I have tried to analyze summarily. The obscure, mysterious, and re-doubtable character of the sexual act has been revealed to me by his-torical and ethnographic research, and I even know the very mo-ment when I was struck by the extreme generality of the fact and all its implications.55

It is not at all as a man that I have spoken of the necessarily myste-rious character of the sexual act; but... exclusively as a sociologist. I am conscious that I do not owe to education the sentiment that I have tried to analyze summarily. The obscure, mysterious, and re-doubtable character of the sexual act has been revealed to me by his-torical and ethnographic research, and I even know the very mo-ment when I was struck by the extreme generality of the fact and all its implications.55

Durkheim on keeping sex mysterious

03.03.2026 17:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was wondering where the list came from.

03.03.2026 14:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Statement on Kansas SB 244 | Flint Hills DSA The official website for the Flint Hills Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America

"This is not the first time we have had to fight. We are not going anywhere." Statement on Kansas SB244 from @fhdsa.org www.fhdsa.org/statements/s...

03.03.2026 14:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A version of the more famous « Police partout, justice nulle part »

03.03.2026 14:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe I should finally read Les Misérables. The above is from Beecher's 1848 book. This chapter at least is really very good.

03.03.2026 03:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"You have been caught up in a struggle of ideas bearing human faces, your head plunged into the light of the future."

03.03.2026 03:53 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

He really has grown on me over thenyears

03.03.2026 03:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I would do this for less than a million dollars

03.03.2026 03:37 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0