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Durkheim's philosophy lectures, notes from the Lycée de Sens course, 1883-1884, edited and translated by Neil Gross, Robert Alun Jones

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Durkheim's philosophy lectures, notes from the Lycée de Sens course, 1883-1884, edited and translated by Neil Gross, Robert Alun Jones

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Durkheim's philosophy lectures

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

314396901

Responsibility statement

edited and translated by Neil Gross, Robert Alun Jones

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

notes from the Lycée de Sens course, 1883-1884

Summary

Moving back and forth between the history of philosophy and the contributions of philosophers in his own day, Durkheim takes up topics as diverse as philosophical psychology, logic, ethics, and metaphysics, and seeks to articulate a unified philosophical position. Remarkably, in these lectures, given more than a decade before the publication of his groundbreaking book, The Division of Labour in Society (1893), the 'social realism' that is so characteristic of his later work - where he insists, famously, that social facts cannot be reduced to psychological or economic ones, and that such facts constrain human action in important ways - is totally absent in these early lectures. For this reason, they will be of special interest to students of the history of the social sciences, for they shed important light on the course of Durkheim's intellectual development.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Preliminary matters -- Psychology -- Logic -- Ethics -- Metaphysics

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