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Author Rawls, Anne Warfield, 1950-

Title Epistemology and practice : Durkheim's The elementary forms of religious life / Anne Warfield Rawls
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description xiii, 355 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Durkheim's outline of the argument in the introductory chapter -- 2. Durkheim's dualism : an anti-Kantian anti-rationalist position -- 3. Sacred and profane : the first classification -- 4. Totemism and the problem of individualism -- 5. The origin of moral force -- 6. The primacy of rites in the origin of causality -- 7. Imitative rites and the category of causality -- 8. The category of causality -- 9. Logic, language and science -- 10. Durkheim's conclusion section iv : logical argument for the categories
Summary "Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is the crowning achievement of his sociological endeavour and that since its publication in English in 1915 it has been consistently misunderstood. Rather than a work on primitive religion or the sociology of knowledge, Rawls asserts that it is an attempt by Durkheim to establish a unique, epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse -- Criticism and interpretation
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Formes el ementaires de la vie religieuse. -- Criticism and interpretation
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. English.
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Formes e��le��mentaires de la vie religieuse
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse
Religion and sociology.
Religion.
Totemism.
Author MyiLibrary.
LC no. 2004045120
ISBN 052165145X
Other Titles Durkheim's The elementary forms of religious life