Three Faces of God: Society, Religion, and the Categories of Totality in the Philosophy of Emile DurkheimThree Faces of God offers a new interpretation of Emile Durkheim's social philosophy. It challenges the current view of him as primarily a scientific sociologist who identified sociology with the study of collective representations. Nielsen argues that Durkheim was a sociological monist who developed a concept of social substance and a theory of society, religion and the categories of understanding strikingly similar to Spinoza's philosophy. The book provides a comprehensive examination of Durkheim's major and minor writings, especially his theory of religion and the categories, and compares his work with Aristotle, Bacon, Kant, and Renouvier. The author places Durkheim's thought in the context of an encounter between traditional religious ideals, especially Judaism, and modernizing scientific and philosophical currents. |
Contents
A CLAIM | 1 |
2 DURKHEIMS INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE DURKHEIMIAN THEORETICAL PROGRAM | 11 |
The Durkheimian Program of Theory and Research | 13 |
SELECTED PREDECESSORS | 19 |
Durkheim and Aristotle | 20 |
Durkheim and Bacon | 29 |
Durkheim and Spinoza | 32 |
Durkheim Kant and Renouvier | 37 |
Mauss on Social Morphology and Eskimo Society | 157 |
Hubert and Mauss on Mentalities Magic and Society | 159 |
Hubert on the Collective Representation of Time | 164 |
The Hubert and Mauss Preface to the Melanges dHistoire des Religions | 169 |
Bougie on the Hindu Caste System | 178 |
SOCIETY RELIGION AND THE CATEGORIES IN THE ELEMENTARY FORMS OF RELIGIOUS LIFE | 181 |
Nature and Society | 183 |
Totality and Society | 186 |
4 DURKHEIMS EARLY WRITINGS AND THE DISSERTATION ON MONTESQUIEU | 47 |
WHOLES PARTS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL SUBSTANCE IN THE DIVISION OF LABOR IN SOCIETY | 61 |
6 THE PROBLEM OF TOTALITY IN DURKHEIMS TRANSITIONAL PERIOD | 75 |
Religion Totality and Society in Durkheims Lectures on Socialism | 82 |
Totality and Its Modes in Suicide | 89 |
BETWEEN REVELATION AND REALIZATION THE DEVELOPING PROBLEM OF TOTALITY IN DURKHEIM FROM 1898 TO 1912 | 103 |
18981905 | 107 |
Durkheim and Rousseau | 125 |
19051912 | 140 |
EARLY DURKHEIM SCHOOL THE WORK OF DURKHEIM MAUSS HUBERT HERTZ AND BOUGLE | 149 |
The Categories Totality and Society | 187 |
Society Deity Totality | 202 |
10 THE PROBLEM OF TOTALITY IN DURKHEIMS LAST WRITINGS | 213 |
The Dualism of Human Nature | 220 |
11 SOCIOLOGICAL MONISM AND THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY | 227 |
A Systematic Reconstruction | 228 |
Toward the Historical Location of Durkheims Thought | 237 |
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