The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism

ISBN-13: 9780521650458 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 342 str.

Robert Alun Jones

Opis

Drawing on a historicist perspective, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism and argues that it was less a sociological method than a way of speaking and thinking about social phenomena. Using for the first time the newly-discovered lecture notes from Durkheim's philosophy class of 1883-4, Professor Jones explores the significance of German social science in Durkheim's thought. The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism will be of immense value to graduate students and scholars in sociology, social theory, social and political philosophy and the history of ideas.

Recenzje

'… reading pleasure not simply for historians, sociologists, and social theorists … in addition, for intellectual historians, sociologists of knowledge, and historians and philosophers of science and social science more generally … attractive for all who are interested in the more general intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe … an invaluable resource for understanding the hopes and fears that Durkheim brought to his own work and the conventions of the discipline that he helped to found as an intellectual, moral and political response to the changing world around him.' Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

1. The reform that contained all other reforms; 2. The subtlety of things; 3. The perfection of personality; 4. A l'école des choses; 5. The yoke of necessity.