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Author Paoletti, Giovanni

Title Émile Durkheim
Published Boston : BRILL, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (235 p.)
Series International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Ser
International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Ser
Contents Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Reversing the Canon of Durkheim's Sociology -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- References -- Part 1 A Crossover between Disciplines -- Chapter 1 Reason as a Social Faculty: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and the Sociological Critique of Philosophical Enlightenment -- 1 Philosophy and Sociology: A Constitutive Tension -- 2 "Une immense coopération": A "Second Degree" Naturalism7 -- 3 A Necessary Force: The Social beyond the Antinomies of Reason
4 Totality in History: Reason as a Social Faculty -- References -- Chapter 2 Durkheim and the History of Religions: The Strange Case of the Camel's Sacrifice -- 1 Robertson Smith and the Sacrificial Meal -- 2 Nilus' Story -- 3 The "Nilus Problem" at the Beginning of the 1900's -- 4 Durkheim: From the Sacrifice of the Camel to the Australian Rituals -- References -- Chapter 3 Little Skeleton and the Rubber Duckie: Durkheim and the Invisible Religion -- 1 Durkheim and Contemporary Religious Experience -- 2 The Sacred and Mass Culture -- 3 Material Culture, Domesticity and the Sacred
4 What Is the Cult of the Individual? -- 5 Conclusions: "Religion of Man" in the Everyday Sphere -- References -- Chapter 4 'Fusing Morals and Aesthetics': The Aesthetic Foundations of the Cosmopolitan Social Bond in Durkheim's Vision of Ritual and Religious Life -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Durkheim's Cosmopolitan Vision -- 3 The Origins of Sociality -- 4 Secret Ceremonies and Supralocal Cults -- 5 The Playful-Aesthetic Character of Supralocal Cults -- 6 Conclusion: Rethinking Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism -- References -- Chapter 5 Durkheim, the Durkheimian and the Sociology of Festivities
1 Durkheim, Mauss and the Sociology of Festivities -- 1.1 Durkheim, Social Effervescence and Festivities -- 1.2 L'Année sociologique -- 2 Harvest, Deepening and Divergence -- 2.1 Harvest: Granet and Gernet -- 2.2 Deepening: Mauss and Maunier -- 2.3 Divergences -- 3 Festivities and Economy in Contemporary Societies -- 3.1 The Economies of the Festive Moment -- 3.2 The Example of the Traditional Festivities in Bayonne -- 3.3 Working during the Festival -- 4 The Crowd and the Festive Atmosphere -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part 2 Beyond Conservative Durkheim
Chapter 6 Elevating Human Dignity as a Universal Frame of Reference: Durkheim on the Moral Sources of Solidarity in Modern Societies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Dilemma of Solidarity -- 3 The Particular Collective Consciousness: The Corporative Solution -- 4 The Universal Collective Consciousness: The Religion of the Individual -- 5 Elevating Human Dignity as a Universal Frame of Moral Reference -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Towards a Model of Reflexive Solidarity -- 1 Integration and Solidarity -- 2 Reflexive Solidarity -- References
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Chapter 8 The Government of Society: Durkheim on the Political, the State and Democracy from a Sociological Perspective
Form Electronic book
Author Pendenza, Massimo
ISBN 9789004508026
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