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Durkheim's Philosophy Lectures: Notes from the Lycee de Sens Course, 1883-1884
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Durkheim's Philosophy Lectures: Notes from the Lycee de Sens Course, 1883-1884
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Emile Durkheim
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Edited and translated by Neil Gross
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Edited and translated by Robert Alun Jones
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Foreword by Hans Joas
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:358 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521175425
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Classifications | Dewey:300.1 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
28 April 2011 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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. 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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