Rethinking Durkheim and His Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780521838160 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 208 str.

Warren Schmaus

Opis

This major reassessment of the work of Emile Durkheim is presented in the context of a French philosophical tradition that seriously misread 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. The categories are necessary conditions for human society for Durkheim. The concepts of causality, space and time support the moral rules and obligations that make society possible.

Recenzje

'With its wealth of research but also critical ideas and arguments, it makes an important and original contribution both to scholarship and ongoing debate in the area. For it is not just a history of ideas. It centres around the Durkheimian tradition, while ranging well beyond this, to offer a sort of critical narrative of the past, present, and possible future career of 'the categories'. A bonus … is its plain style of writing and avoidance of obscurantism.' William Watts Miller, University of Bristol

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Durkheim and the social character of the categories; 2. Historical background: Aristotle and Kant; 3. The categories in early nineteenth-century French philosophy; 4. The later eclectic spiritualism of Paul Janet; 5. The early development of Durkheim's thought; 6. Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories; 7. Prospects for the sociological theory of the categories; Notes; Bibliography; Index.