Émile Durkheim: Sociology as an Open Science

Sociology as an Open Science
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52449-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 140, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

Sociology for Durkheim was by no means a knowledge closed in its specificity. It was rather an open science, permeable to contributions coming from other disciplines. For him, the task of sociology was to study what held societies together, giving place to reflective change and progressive development. This is an epistemological and political model that still retains all its relevance today: an example to be rediscovered against any reductionist conception of the vocation and object of social sciences; an encouragement to see sociology as an indispensable protagonist for an authentic interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of humanities. It is one of the best legacies Durkheim left us, that this book attempts to illustrate.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Paoletti, Giovanni

Pendenza, Massimo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Introduction: Reversing the canon of Durkheim's sociology

Massimo Pendenza and Giovanni Paoletti

Part I – A crossover between disciplines: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

1. Reason as a social faculty. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and the sociological critique of Philosophical Enlightenment

Nicola Marcucci

2. Durkheim and the history of ancient religions: the strange case of the camel sacrifice

Giovanni Paoletti

3. Little Skeleton and the Rubber Duckie: Durkheim and the Invisible Religion

Fabio Dei

4. ‘Fusing morals and aesthetics’: The aesthetic foundations of the cosmopolitan social bond in Durkheim’s vision of ritual and religious life

Dario Verderame

5. Durkheim and the sociology of festivities

Philippe Steiner

Part II - Beyond conservative Durkheim: society, solidarity, and politics

6. ‘Elevating human dignity as a universal frame of reference’: Durkheim on the moral sources of solidarity in modern societies

Massimo Pendenza

7. Towards a model of reflexive solidarity

Ambrogio Santambrogio

8. The government of society: Durkheim on the political, the State and democracy from a sociological perspective

Francesco Callegaro

9. Durkheim, “Europe” and Brexit

David Inglis

Über Autor(innen)

Giovanni Paoletti, Ph.D. in Philosophy (2000, University of Pisa) and in Sociology (2003, Sciences-Po, Paris), is full Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Pisa (Italy). He is the author of several articles and a monograph on Durkheim (Durkheim et la philosophie. Représentation, réalité et lien social, Classiques Garnier, Paris 2012).


Massimo Pendenza, Ph.D. in Sociology (Napoli 1998) is full professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for European Studies (CES) at the University of the Salerno (Italy). He is the author of several articles, monographs, and edited books on Classical Sociology (Classical Sociology Beyond Methodological Nationalism, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2014).