TY - BOOK ID - 6765069 TI - Rethinking Durkheim and his tradition PY - 2004 SN - 0521838169 0521037956 1107162068 0511215568 0511217358 0511315937 0511498322 1280540680 0511211988 0511213751 9780521838160 9780511217357 9780511215568 9780511498329 9781280540684 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University press DB - UniCat KW - Durkheimian school of sociology. KW - Sociology KW - History. KW - Durkheim, Émile, KW - Durkheimian school of sociology KW - French sociologists (Durkheimian school) KW - Schools of sociology KW - History KW - Durkheim, Emile, KW - Tʻu-erh-kan, KW - Di︠u︡rkem, E., KW - Durkheim, David Émile, KW - Di︠u︡rkgeĭm, Ėmilʹ, KW - Dyurukēmu, Emīru, KW - Durkheim, Emilio, KW - Dirkem, Emil, KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy KW - Sociology - History. KW - Sociology - France - History. KW - Durkheim, Émile, - 1858-1917 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6765069 AB - This book offers a reassessment of the work of Emile Durkheim in the context of a French philosophical tradition that had seriously misinterpreted Kant by interpreting his theory of the categories as psychological faculties. Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories, as revealed by Warren Schmaus, is an attempt to provide an alternative way of understanding Kant. For Durkheim the categories are necessary conditions for human society. The concepts of causality, space and time underpin the moral rules and obligations that make society possible. A particularly interesting feature of this book is its transcendence of the distinction between intellectual and social history by placing Durkheim's work in the context of the French educational establishment of the Third Republic. It does this by subjecting student notes and philosophy textbooks to the same sort of critical analysis typically applied only to the classics of philosophy. ER -