Epistemology and Practice: Durkheim's the Elementary Forms of Religious Life

ISBN-13: 9780521651455 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 372 str.

Anne Warfield Rawls

Opis

Anne Warfield Rawls argues that, although Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religion is the crowning achievement of his sociological accomplishments, it has been consistently misunderstood. Rather than a work on primitive religion or the sociology of knowledge, Rawls asserts that Durkheim's analysis represents an attempt to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations. Based on detailed analysis of the primary text, this book will be an important and original contribution to contemporary debates on social theory and philosophy.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Durkheim's outline of the argument in the introductory chapter; 2. Durkheim's dualism: an anti-Kantian, anti-rationalist position; 3. Sacred and Profane: the first classification; 4. Totemism and the problem of individualism; 5. The origin of moral force; 6. The primacy of rites in the origin of causality; 7. Imitative rites and the category of causality; 8. The category of causality; 9. Logic, language and science; 10. Durkheim's conclusion: logical argument for the categories; Conclusion.