Record Nr.

UNINA9910457561403321

Autore

Schmaus Warren <1952->

Titolo

Rethinking Durkheim and his tradition / / Warren Schmaus [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN


1-107-16206-8
1-280-54068-0
0-511-21556-8
0-511-21735-8
0-511-21198-8
0-511-31593-7
0-511-49832-2
0-511-21375-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

301/.0944

Soggetti

Durkheimian school of sociology

Sociology - History

Sociology - France - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Durkheim and the social character of the categories -- Historical background : Aristotle and Kant -- The categories in early-nineteenth-century French philosophy -- The later eclectic spiritualism of Paul Janet -- The early development of Durkheim's thought -- Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories -- Prospects for the sociological theory of the categories.

Sommario/riassunto

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.