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A Durkheimian quest : solidarity and the sacred / W. Watts Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watts Miller, William, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
- Durkheim, Émile.
- Sociologists--France.
- Sociologists.
- Sociology--History.
- Sociology.
- Ethics--History.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Durkheim, in his very role as a ""founding father"" of a new social science has become like a figure 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 great wo
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Investigations of a project
- pt. 2. Essays on modern times.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283655699
- 1283655691
- 9780857455673
- 0857455672
- OCLC:
- 813285455
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