Durkheim Reconsidered
Durkheim Reconsidered

Author: Susan Stedman Jones

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-06-28

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0745668623

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Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of modern sociology and a key figure in the development of social theory. And yet today his work is often misunderstood, since it is commonly viewed through the lens of later authors who used his writings to illustrate certain tendencies in social thought. Durkheim Reconsidered challenges the common views of Durkheim and offers a fresh and much-needed reappraisal of his ideas. Stedman Jones dismantles the interpretations of Durkheim that remain widespread in Anglo-American sociology and then examines afresh his major works, placing them in their historical and political context. She emphasizes Durkheim's debt to the socialist and republican thought of his contemporaries - and especially to Renouvier who, she argues, had a profound influence on Durkheim's approach. This book will be recognised as a major reinterpretation of the work of one of the most important figures in the history of sociology and social thought. It will be of great interest to scholars and students in sociology, anthropology and related disciplines.

The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim
The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim

Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-05-26

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780521806725

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An authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays redefining the relevance of Durkheim to the human sciences in the twenty-first century.

Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition
Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition

Author: Warren Schmaus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-06-21

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1139454625

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This book offers a reassessment of the work of Emile Durkheim in the context of a French philosophical tradition that had seriously misinterpreted Kant by interpreting his theory of the categories as psychological faculties. Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories, as revealed by Warren Schmaus, is an attempt to provide an alternative way of understanding Kant. For Durkheim the categories are necessary conditions for human society. The concepts of causality, space and time underpin the moral rules and obligations that make society possible. A particularly interesting feature of this book is its transcendence of the distinction between intellectual and social history by placing Durkheim's work in the context of the French educational establishment of the Third Republic. It does this by subjecting student notes and philosophy textbooks to the same sort of critical analysis typically applied only to the classics of philosophy.

For Durkheim
For Durkheim

Author: Edward A. Tiryakian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1351936220

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For Durkheim is a timely and original contribution to the debate about Durkheim at a time when his concerns on ethics, morality and civil religion have much relevance for our own troubled and divided society. It includes two new essays from Edward A. Tiryakian’s collection on the Danish Muhammad cartoons and September 11th, providing contemporary relevance to the debate and an analytical and interpretive introduction indicating the ongoing importance of Durkheim within sociology. This indispensable volume for all serious Durkheim scholars includes English translations of papers previously published in French for the first time, and will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, social historians and those interested in critical questions of modernity.

Emile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim

Author: Prof Kenneth Thompson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-10-04

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1134495358

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This book examines Durkheim's considerable achievements and situates them in their social and intellectual contexts, with a concise account of the major elements of Durkheim's sociology. The book includes a critical commentary on the four main studies which exemplify Durkheim's contribution to sociology: The Division of Labour in Society; Suicide; The Rules of Sociological Method and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

Teaching Durkheim
Teaching Durkheim

Author: Terry F. Godlove

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0195165284

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Emile Durkheim's work on religion occupies a central place in religious studies classrooms today. This volume is designed as a resource for teachers, offering practical advice about productive ways to approach central texts and difficult pedagogical issues.

Durkheim & Critique
Durkheim & Critique

Author: Nicola Marcucci

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 3030751589

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This book investigates the relation between Durkheim’s sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences. The book is organized in four sections: confronting Durkheim and other critical traditions; inquiring his social and critical ontology; interrogating the relation between social practices and justice; and discussing his relevance in contemporary politics and political theory. An international group of philosophers, sociologists, and critical theorists contribute to show Durkheim’s reflection as an important complement—or an alternative—to the Hegelian-Marxist and post-structuralist conceptions of social critique. In this way, the book intends to inaugurate a new reflection on social critique at the intersection between philosophy and sociological theory.

Durkheim Today
Durkheim Today

Author: W. S. F. Pickering

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781571815484

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Confronting the Sacred: Durkheim vindicated through philosophical analysis, ethnography, archaeology, long-range linguistics, and comparative mythology
Confronting the Sacred: Durkheim vindicated through philosophical analysis, ethnography, archaeology, long-range linguistics, and comparative mythology

Author: Wim van Binsbergen

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-05-06

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9078382333

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With Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) the soci0logist ?mile Durkheim formulated the most influential social-science theory of religion to date. Pivotal are the paired concepts ?sacred / profane?, the notion of ?collective representations?, and the hypothesis that through such religious symbols, society compels its members to venerate herself i.e. to submit to the social as an irreducible instance in its own right. Having grappled with this Durkheimian inheritance for half a century, the anthropologist of religion and intercultural philosopher Wim van Binsbergen in this book traces his own steps in confront_ing Durkheim's sacred, through theoretical criticism, through ethnographic application (to popular Islam in the segmentary social organisation of the highlands of Northwestern Tunisia), and by state-of-the-art long-range methods of linguistic and comparative mythological analysis. Thus, much to his surprise, he demonstrates the continued validity of Durkheim's insights in religion.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion

Author: John Corrigan

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 0195170210

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This volume collects essays under four categories: religious traditions, religious life, emotional states, and historical and theoretical perspectives. They describe the ways in which emotions affect various world religions, and analyse the manner in which certain components of religious represent and shape emotional performance.