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Epistemology and practice : Durkheim's The elementary forms of religious life / Anne Warfield Rawls.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 355 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0511080662
  • 9780511080661
  • 9780511488849
  • 051148884X
  • 0511297874
  • 9780511297878
  • 9780511079900
  • 0511079907
  • 1280417560
  • 9781280417566
  • 1107128307
  • 9781107128309
  • 0511170726
  • 9780511170720
  • 0511196202
  • 9780511196201
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Epistemology and practice.DDC classification:
  • 306.6 22
LOC classification:
  • GN470.D83 R39 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.05
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Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 Section iv: Logical Argument for Social Origin of the Categories.
ConclusionBibliography; Index.
Summary: In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life has been consistently misunderstood. It is his crowning achievement and an attempt to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 Section iv: Logical Argument for Social Origin of the Categories.

ConclusionBibliography; Index.

In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life has been consistently misunderstood. It is his crowning achievement and an attempt to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations.

English.