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The stranger is a shadowy figure of American sociology who exists with one foot outside the door of the sociological tradition (as in the case of Georg Simmel) or with both feet firmly outside the line that separates the periphery from the centre (as in the case of ibn Khaldun). In this chapter, the author situates Simmel and ibn Khaldun as strangers within the tradition of American sociology. Rousselle provokes a return to “social geometry” so as to open up a possible move into the sort of topological analysis that Lacan increasingly favoured in his late teaching (a topology of the social bond).
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Rousselle, D. (2019). On Strangers. In: Jacques Lacan and American Sociology. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19726-1_5
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