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144 Pages·2010·10.705 MB·English

by  Mauss, Marcel;Durkheim, Emile

Routledge Revivals
Sociology and Philosophy

First published in English in 1953, this volume represents a collection
of three essays written by seminal sociologist and philosopher Emile
Durkheim in which he puts forward the thesis that society is both a
dynamic system and the seat of moral life. Each essay stands alone, but
their connecting thread is the dialectic demonstration that a phenom­
enon, be it a sociological or psychological one, is relatively independent
of its matrix.
The essays provide a valuable insight into Durkheimian thought on
sociological and philosophical matters and offer an excellent guide to
Durkheim for students of both disciplines.
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Sociology and P h ilosoph y

Emile Durkheim
Translated by
D. F. Pocock
With an Introduction by
J. G. Peristiany
First published in English in 1953
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SOCIOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY
SOCIOLOGIE ET PHILOSOPHIE
Published by
PRESSES UNIVERSITAIRES DE FRANCE
Paris, 1951
SOCIOLOGY
AND PHILOSOPHY
by

EMILE DURKHEIM
Translated by
D. F. POCOCK
With an Introduction by
J. G. PERISTIANY
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the
University of Oxford
COPYRIGHT
Printed in Great Britain by
Billing and Sons Ltd., Guildford and Esher
G5701
C O N T E N T S
PAGE
Introduction vii
T r anslator’s N ote xxxiii

Preface to the O riginal E dition xxxv
I Individual and C ollective
R epresentations 1
II T he D etermination of M oral
Facts 35
III R eplies to O bjections:
i . The Condition of Society and the Condition
of Social Opinion 63
2. Individual Reason and Moral Reality 65
3. The Feeling of Obligation: the Sacred
Character of Morality 68
4. The Moral Authority of the Collective 73
5. Philosophy and Moral Facts 75
6. The Subjective Representation of Morality 78
IV V alue J udgments and J udgments of
R eality 80
V