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

Emile Durkheim (Author), Neil Gross (Translator), Robert Alun Jones (Translator), Hans Joas (Foreword)

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ISBN-10: 0521630665 | ISBN-13: 978-0521630665 | Publication Date: July 19, 2004

Emile Durkheim, the founder of French sociology, introduces secondary school students to the field of philosophy in this series of lectures. He pursues topics as diverse as philosophical psychology, logic, ethics, and metaphysics, in the course of attempting to articulate a unified philosophical position. Intellectual historians, historically-minded philosophers, and French historians will find the lectures a valuable historical document.

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In these lectures, Emile Durkheim, the founder of French sociology, sets out to introduce secondary school students to the field of philosophy. Moving easily 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. Intellectual historians, historically-minded philosophers, and French historians will all find the lectures a valuable historical document.

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 358 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 19, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521630665
• ISBN-13: 978-0521630665
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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