Full Description
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.
*Émile Durkheim: Sociology as an Open Science is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Contents
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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
