The Elgar companion to Emile Durkheim / edited by Marcel Fournier (professor emeritus, Department of Sociology, Universite de Montreal) and Paul Carls (PhD Political Science, Universite de Montreal, Canada).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fournier, Marcel, editor.

Carls, Paul, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar companions to great thinkers

Elgar companions to great thinkers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.

Durkheim, Émile.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This fascinating book explores the life and work of Emile Durkheim, presenting new and exciting interpretations of his foundational sociological ideas. By tracing the evolution of his thought and its impact on key areas of inquiry, the book demonstrates Durkheim's continuing significance in contemporary social science. Leading scholars recontextualize Durkheim's ideas, placing him in dialogue with other core figures in the social sciences from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each chapter covers a different topic, and together they address issues in sociology, politics, philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, criminology, nationalism, religious studies, ethics, suicide, gender, anthropology, and post-colonialism. This book showcases the enduring relevance of Durkheim's work, establishing its innovative potential and continued inspiration for modern analysis. This interdisciplinary investigation of Emile Durkheim will benefit scholars and students across the social sciences, particularly those in the fields of sociology, criminology, philosophy, politics, religious studies, and anthropology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Why Durkheim? Defending Durkheimian sociology / Marcel Fournier and Paul Carls

Part I: Life and context

2. Emile Durkheim as university administrator / Marcel Fournier

3. The Dreyfus affair: Between literature, social sciences, and medical sciences / Frederic Keck

4. Durkheim and the liberal tradition / Giovanni Paoletti

Part II: The reception and legacy of Durkheim's work

5. Durkheim's enemies / Steven Lukes

6. Durkheim and the postcolonial critique / George Steinmetz

7. The Durkheimian legacy in symbolic anthropology / Andrea Cossu

8. Durkheim in the Bay Area: Bellah's creative reading as a beautiful case of reception / Jean-Louis Fabiani

9. A Durkheimian age: The Durkheimian tradition and the study of religion in the twenty-first century / Romulo Lelis

10. Durkheim, religion, and the sociology of nationalism / Genevi�eve Zubrzycki and Paul Christopher Johnson

Part III: Themes in sociology and politics

11. A Durkheimian environmental social theory / Mark Cladis

12. The triple core of Durkheimian moral sociology / Raquel Andrade Weiss

13. Durkheim's collective effervescence and Weber's charisma: Updating or stretching kindred concepts for the post-post-Cold War world? / Laurence McFalls

14. The parallax of exclusion: Durkheim, Bataille, and Foucault / Ronjon Paul Datta

15. Revisiting Durkheim on women, feminism, and equality / Tara Milbrandt

16. Against the caprice of wills: Durkheim on sex, marriage, and family / Alexander Riley

17. Durkheim's weakest monograph? A Popperian reconsideration of suicide / Wout Ultee

18. Reading Durkheim through the prism of criminology: From the division of labour in society to the elementary forms of religious life / Matthieu Bera

Part IV: Durkheim and consciousness

19. Durkheim as master of suspicion / Paul Carls

20. How to deal with objectivity? An appraisal of Merleau-Ponty's reading of Durkheim / Carlos Belvedere

21. What is conscience? / Susan Stedman Jones

22. Logical conformism and moral conformism among the moderns: What remains of Durkheim's sociology of knowledge? / Gildas Salmon

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035322930 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.