Book, Order of Things, A: thinking about postmodernity[LS]

Against desuet rationalism, triumphant economism, enchanting progressivism and the inauthenticity of its empty formulas, Michel Maffesoli sings of the infinite tenderness of the world and reminds us that the tragic feeling of life agrees with the Order of things. In this new essay, the postmodern theorist joyfully explores sociological thought, examines the vibrations of living together and insists on the opposition between the horizontal power secreted by popular wisdom and the rigidity of vertical power, coming from God or monotheistic ideologies .