Émile Durkheim : : sociology as an open science / / 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.

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Superior document:International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ; 140
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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)
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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.