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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Durkheim's Philosophy Lectures
• Subtitle: Notes from the Lycee de Sens Course, 1883-1884
• Author: Emile DurkheimNeil GrossRobert Alun JonesHans Joas
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358
• EAN: 9780521175425
• ISBN: 0521175429
• ID: 02024667
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 530 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 153 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. April 2011

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