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Return of the Sacred?
Ronjon Paul Datta
In Durkheimian Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2011
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 153–156 (4 total)
Concerning Durkheim's 1899 Lecture ‘On Penal Sanctions’
Introduction, Translation Notes, and Comments
Ronjon Paul Datta and François Pizarro Noël
Abstract
This article provides a critical introduction to the first English translation of Durkheim's Saturday, 2 December 1899, lecture that he entitled ‘Course Outline: On Penal Sanctions’. It was written for the first class of the final year of his course ‘General Physics of Law and Morality’. We provide some context to the lecture, a description of the four-year long course at Bordeaux of which it was a part, offer notes on our translation, and discuss the salience of its content. Of particular note is Durkheim's sociological reasoning, and the critical impact of antisubjectivism on the development of his special theory of sanctions and conception of morality as part of social reality.
In Durkheimian Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 76–85 (10 total)
Past Conferences
William Watts Miller and Ronjon Paul Datta
Oxford 22 February 2003
Halifax, Nova Scotia 3 June 2003
In Durkheimian Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2003
- Article Type:
- Meeting Report
- Pages:
- 113–114 (2 total)
An Unpublished Manuscript by Durkheim
‘On the General Physics of Law and Morality, 4th Year of the Course, 1st Lecture, December 2, 1899, Course Outline: On Penal Sanctions’
Émile Durkheim, edited and translated by François Pizarro Noël, and Ronjon Paul Datta
Abstract
This is the first English translation of Durkheim's lecture for the first class of the fourth and final year of his course ‘On the General Physics of Law and Morality’. The content from the previous year's course is contained in Professional Ethics and Civic Morals (Durkheim [1950] 1992). Durkheim discusses the importance of a special theory of sanctions and provides a typology of their negative and positive forms. He makes a case for the sociology of penalties and responsibilities, one based on the examination of their external and visible characteristics. Crucially, Durkheim displaces the ostensible causal importance of the intentions of juridical subjects, whether legislators or wrong-doers. The translation is accompanied by an extended critical introduction by R. P. Datta and Fr. Pizarro Noël.
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Louise Child, Ronjon Paul Datta, Mike Gane, Timothy Jenkins, Jean-Christophe Marcel, David Moss, W. S. F. Pickering, William Ramp, Derek Robbins, Raymond de la Rocha Mille, Anne de Sales, Sue Stedman Jones, and William Watts Miller
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