Durkheim's Philosophy Lectures: Notes from the Lycée de Sens Course, 1883-1884 - Softcover

 
9780521175425: Durkheim's Philosophy Lectures: Notes from the Lycée de Sens Course, 1883-1884
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ISBN 10: 0521175429 ISBN 13: 9780521175425
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Emile Durkheim sets out to introduce students to the field of philosophy.

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Book Description

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.

About the Author

Neil Gross is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California. He writes on classical and contemporary sociological theory, as well as the sociology of ideas. His work has appeared in such journals as Theory & Society, American Sociological Review, Sociological Theory, and Annual Review of Sociology. Robert Alun Jones is the author of Emile Durkheim: An Introduction to Four Major Works (1986), The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism (1999), and The Secret of the Totem: Religion and Society in the Works of McLennan, Smith, Frazer, Durkheim, and Freud (forthcoming), as well as numerous essays and journal articles on Durkheim and his contemporaries. He has also been editor of both Etudes durkheimiennes and Knowledge and Society.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521175429
ISBN 13 
9780521175425
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
358
Editor
Gross Neil

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