Figures du style communautaire) is a book by the French sociologist Michel Maffesoli, published in 1993 through éditions Grasset.

His analysis is based on the idea of postmodernity, a current condition characterised by fragmentation of images, signs, objects and society.

He argues that "style" provides a link through everything from everyday life to shared emotions and political-economical organisation.

[2] Le Monde wrote that The Contemplation of the World is characterised by an absence of judging, and that Maffesoli goes against the grain by rejecting the idea that contemporary people are increasingly individualistic in their social interactions and that the increased importance of images fracture social life due to the media that control them.

[3] Alicia Lindón V. wrote in Estudios Sociológicos that The Contemplation of the World shares the "spiral-like thinking" of Maffesoli's previous books and succeeds to provoke readers with fluid thoughts, while mocking conventional, "rigid" sociology for what Maffesoli views as inabilities to understand a changing world.