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)

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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables -- Introduction Reversing the Canon of Durkheim’s Sociology / Massimo Pendenza and Giovanni Paoletti -- 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 / Nicola Marcucci -- 2 Durkheim and the History of Religions The Strange Case of the Camel’s 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, the Durkheimian and the Sociology of Festivities / Philippe Steiner -- 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 / 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 -- Index.