Languages of belief and early sociology in Nineteenth-Century France : the elementary forms of sociological life / Michiel Van Dam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dam, Michiel, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--France--History--19th century.

Sociology.

Belief and doubt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 331 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: On the Possibility of A Sociological Mode of Existence. Bruno Latour and the Post-Secular Critiques of Belief

Chapter 3: Historicizing the Sociological Belief/Knowledge-Composition: Theories and Method

Chapter 4: Early Experiments in the Sociological Operation I: Languages of Belief within the French Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Culture

Chapter 5: Early Experiments in the Sociological Operation II. The Christian Sociologism of Louis de Bonald

Chapter 6: Early Experiments in the Sociological Operation III. The Socialist Sociologisms of Saint-Simon and the Saint-Simonists

Chapter 7: Sociology as Institution and as Spiritual Authority. Languages of Belief in the Work of Auguste Comte

Chapter 8: Narrating Solidarity through the Division of Belief: Durkheim and the History of Belief Systems

Chapter 9: The Varieties of Sociological Experience. Durkheimian Belief/Knowledge-Compositions

Chapter 10: Epilogue: Sociology and Belief Beyond Positivism

Chapter 11: Concluding Remarks: Returning to the Post-Secular.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 30, 2024).

ISBN:

9783031700231

3031700236

Publisher Number:

90100689343

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.