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Author Watts Miller, William, 1944-

Title A Durkheimian quest : solidarity and the sacred / W. Watts Miller
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 257 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. 1. Investigations of a project -- pt. 2. Essays on modern times
Summary Durkheim, in his very role as a 'founding father' of a new social science, sociology, has become like a?gure in an old religious painting, enshrouded in myth and encrusted in layers of thick, impenetrable varnish. This book undertakes detailed, up-to-date investigations of Durkheim's work in an effort to restore its freshness and reveal it as originally created. These investigations explore his particular ideas, within an overall narrative of his initial problematic search for solidarity, how it became a quest for the sacred and how, at the end of his life, he embarked on a project for a new
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
SUBJECT Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917 fast
Subject Sociologists -- France
Sociology -- History.
Ethics -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Ethics
Sociologists
Sociology
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012013691
ISBN 9780857455673
0857455672
9780857455673