THE DEVELOPMENT OF DURKHEIM'S SOCIAL REALISM by Robert Alun Jones ( 9780521650458 )

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF DURKHEIM'S SOCIAL REALISM

By:

Robert Alun Jones

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0521650453

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

4 November, 1999

Series:

Ideas in Context No. 55

Pages:

342

Description:

Using newly discovered material, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism.

Synopsis:

Drawing on the kind of historicist perspective encouraged by Quentin Skinner and Richard Rorty, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism. Durkheim argued that social facts should be studied as real, concrete things but Professor Jones argues that his social realism was less a sociological method than a way of speaking and thinking about social phenomena through which Durkheim hoped to secure the allegiance of French citizens to the Third Republic. Professor Jones's book, based on many years' research in this area, takes advantage for the first time of newly discovered lecture notes from Durkheim's philosophy class of 1883-4 and explores the significance of German social science in Durkheim's thought. The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism will be of immense value to graduate students and scholars in sociology, social theory, social and political philosophy and history of ideas.

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