Émile Durkheim : : sociology as an open science / / edited by Giovanni Paoletti and Massimo Pendenza.

• Superior document: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ; 140
• TeilnehmendeR: Pendenza, Massimo,; Paoletti, Giovanni,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ; 140.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 pages)
• Other title: List of Tables --; Introduction Reversing the Canon of Durkheim’s Sociology /; part 1 --; 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 /; 2 Durkheim and the History of Religions The Strange Case of the Camel’s Sacrifice /; 3 Little Skeleton and the Rubber Duckie Durkheim and the Invisible Religion /; 4 ‘Fusing Morals and Aesthetics’ The Aesthetic Foundations of the Cosmopolitan Social Bond in Durkheim’s Vision of Ritual and Religious Life /; 5 Durkheim, the Durkheimian and the Sociology of Festivities /; part 2 --; 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 /; 7 Towards a Model of Reflexive Solidarity /; 8 The Government of Society Durkheim on the Political, the State and Democracy from a Sociological perspective /; 9 Durkheim, “Europe” and Brexit /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004508023
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Giovanni Paoletti and Massimo Pendenza.

For Durkheim sociology was not a form of knowledge closed in its specificity, nor an instrument for social order: it was an open science, aiming at promoting reflective change and the progressive development of society. 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.