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A Durkheimian Quest : Solidarity and the Sacred / William Watts Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782385288
  • 9780857455673
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.092 23
LOC classification:
  • HM479.D87 .W38 2014
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 INVESTIGATIONS OF A PROJECT -- CHAPTER 1 The Idea of a Social Science -- CHAPTER 2 The Creation of The Division of Labour -- CHAPTER 3 In Search of Solidarity: The Division of Labour -- CHAPTER 4 An Intellectual Crisis -- CHAPTER 5 The Creation of The Elemental Forms -- CHAPTER 6 In Quest of the Sacred: The Elemental Forms -- CHAPTER 7 Transparence or Transfiguration? -- CHAPTER 8 Towards a New Great Work -- PART 2 ESSAYS ON MODERN TIMES -- ESSAY 1 Power Struggles -- ESSAY 2 Hope -- ESSAY 3 Art -- ESSAY 4 Surviving Capitalism -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Durkheim, in his very role as a ‘founding father’ of a new social science, sociology, has become like a figure in an old religious painting, enshrouded in myth and encrusted in layers of thick, impenetrable varnish. This book undertakes detailed, up-to-date investigations of Durkheim’s work in an effort to restore its freshness and reveal it as originally created. These investigations explore his particular ideas, within an overall narrative of his initial problematic search for solidarity, how it became a quest for the sacred and how, at the end of his life, he embarked on a project for a new great work on ethics. A theme running through this is his concern with a modern world in crisis and his hope in social and moral reform. Accordingly, the book concludes with a set of essays on modern times and on a crisis that Durkheim thought would pass but which now seems here to stay.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 INVESTIGATIONS OF A PROJECT -- CHAPTER 1 The Idea of a Social Science -- CHAPTER 2 The Creation of The Division of Labour -- CHAPTER 3 In Search of Solidarity: The Division of Labour -- CHAPTER 4 An Intellectual Crisis -- CHAPTER 5 The Creation of The Elemental Forms -- CHAPTER 6 In Quest of the Sacred: The Elemental Forms -- CHAPTER 7 Transparence or Transfiguration? -- CHAPTER 8 Towards a New Great Work -- PART 2 ESSAYS ON MODERN TIMES -- ESSAY 1 Power Struggles -- ESSAY 2 Hope -- ESSAY 3 Art -- ESSAY 4 Surviving Capitalism -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Durkheim, in his very role as a ‘founding father’ of a new social science, sociology, has become like a figure in an old religious painting, enshrouded in myth and encrusted in layers of thick, impenetrable varnish. This book undertakes detailed, up-to-date investigations of Durkheim’s work in an effort to restore its freshness and reveal it as originally created. These investigations explore his particular ideas, within an overall narrative of his initial problematic search for solidarity, how it became a quest for the sacred and how, at the end of his life, he embarked on a project for a new great work on ethics. A theme running through this is his concern with a modern world in crisis and his hope in social and moral reform. Accordingly, the book concludes with a set of essays on modern times and on a crisis that Durkheim thought would pass but which now seems here to stay.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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