sequence of manuscript pages for the lecture is indicated throughout by pagination in round brackets. 2 Translators’ note. Durkheim's conception of morals and sanctions is much the same as he had articulated in the previous year's opening lecture (i
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An Unpublished Manuscript by Durkheim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
Durkheim, Mauss et la dynamogénie
Le lien Gley (1857–1930)
Nicolas Sembel
moment très curieux dans l'œuvre de Durkheim et de Mauss. Alors que le premier vient de publier les Formes de la vie religieuse sans citer une seule fois le mot, il l'utilise dans un compte-rendu comparatif entre les Formes et un ouvrage de Frazer
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2015
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- 96–133 (38 total)
Durkheim
Une sociologie d’État
Catherine Colliot-Thélène
It is traditional to discuss the relation between Durkheim and Weber as ‘founders of sociology’. At first sight, it might seem odd to couple Durkheim and Hegel. But it can be instructive to compare their approach to issues involving modern individualism, society and the state. In general, they subscribe to a combination of rationalism and developmental ethics, in which the rational is immanent in the real, despite the possibility of ‘contingent’ or ‘pathological’ departures from ‘normality’. More specifically, in the case of the state, they see one of its main historical roles as the emancipation of the individual in a development of the individual personality. At the same time they picture the state as ‘the brain’ of society and insist on its relative autonomy and independence from individuals. Instead, in a critique of direct democracy, they look to a web of intermediate groups and corporations. A basic problematic in their work, and a continuing source of reflection, is how to achieve a balance between individual rights and a necessary authority and legitimacy of public power. In both cases this balance rests, as a matter of principle, on confidence in the skills and civic virtue of political leaders.
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Un manuscrit inédit de Durkheim
Physique générale du droit et des mœurs, IVe Année du Cours. 1re Leçon, 2 Décembre 1899, Plan du Cours – Les Sanctions pénales
Émile Durkheim and édité par François Pizarro Noël
Le manuscrit de 1899 : Les sanctions pénales Il y a quelques années ont été découverts chez madame Eveline Halphen, en même temps que les manuscrits des Leçons de sociologie d'Émile Durkheim, une série de feuillets manuscrits inédits. Sur le
Durkheim's Two Theories of Sacrifice
Ritual, Social Change and Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse
Melissa Ptacek
Durkheim's interest in sacrifice can be traced back to early texts such as his thesis on the division of labour, in which he was sometimes concerned with it as a religious rite, sometimes as a moral act, but also and not least as both. For example
In Durkheimian Studies
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Concerning Durkheim's 1899 Lecture ‘On Penal Sanctions’
Introduction, Translation Notes, and Comments
Ronjon Paul Datta and François Pizarro Noël
This article provides an introduction to our translation of Durkheim's 1899 lecture entitled ‘Course Outline: On Penal Sanctions’. A typescript French version of these lecture notes, handwritten by Durkheim, was prepared by François Pizarro Noël and
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 76–85 (10 total)
Raymond Boudon
This is an essay – along with another, by Frank Pearce – on The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (2005). The collection is heterogeneous, and good in parts. But there are also basic themes, driven by the concerns of the editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Alexander – especially with a 'cultural turn' in how Durkheim is interpreted. Accordingly, a major criticism is that Durkheim's 'culturalism' isn't a relativistic 'culturalism', but looks for universals. His work conjugates the contextual and the universal. It also conjugates the rational and the emotional, in a continuation rather than a radical break with Kant. But it is above all in a commitment to science, and to a search for explanation through intelligible connections in the underlying dynamics of social life. Accordingly, another major criticism is not only the collection's tendency to downplay reason, but a sort of black hole in which it fails to tackle Durkheim's very idea of a social science.
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2006
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- Review Article
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- 137–148 (12 total)
Durkheim's Dream
A Society of Justice and Charity
Luca Guizzardi
This essay explores a key issue in Durkheim’s work, namely the relationship between justice and charity, and argues that the key to this, in turn, is to be found in an analysis of the gift. Beginning with his early lycée lectures and their account of justice and charity in relation to the moral law, it goes on to suggest that throughout his work there is an underlying concern with the gift – even or especially in his concern with the contract. This is evident in his vision of a society based on a ‘spontaneous’ division of labour, as well as in his critique of the inequalities built into existing society through the institution of inheritance. But the essay also draws on modern French discussions of the gift, and their concern with issues of mutuality, reciprocity and recognition. This helps to identify the approach to the gift that underlies Durkheim’s sociology, and to bring out its interest and importance.
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2009
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- 85–98 (14 total)
Guy van de Walle
Among the many theories of socialization, that of Durkheim stands out. While most analyses of socialization are individualistic, that of Durkheim is holistic. This singularity presents a challenge to the modern mind, which is dominated by individualism. Reading Durkheim's analysis of socialization, like the rest of his work, requires the difficult task of overcoming one's natural tendency to do so through an individualistic lens. This paper is an attempt to restore the original holistic meaning of this analysis. It aims to correct some of Durkheim's commentators' re-interpretations of his views and the everyday language that he uses in individualistic terms. Particular attention is given to Durkheim's distinction between authority and power. This distinction has huge implications for Durkheim's interpretation of socialization, which he sees as a process that primarily involves a particular relationship - one that he describes in terms of 'submission' - with the authority of society.
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Gustave Belot, Critic and Admirer of Durkheim
An Introduction
W. S .F. Pickering
In Durkheim’s time, Gustave Belot was an active, well-known participant in debates on social issues. Nowadays he is a marginal, largely forgotten figure. This essay aims to provide an introduction to his life and work, in which he was in many ways sympathetic with Durkheim’s project for a social science but was also highly critical of it. The discussion concentrates on Belot’s position on ethics and religion, to bring out where he supported Durkheim and where he attacked him on these two areas of central concern to them both. In particular, it focuses on Durkheim’s critique of Belot’s Etudes de morale positive, then in turn on Belot’s critique of Durkheim’s Formes élémentaires.
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2010
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