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Emile Durkheim - His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study (Paperback, Anniversary)
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Emile Durkheim - His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study (Paperback, Anniversary)
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This study of Durkheim seeks to help the reader to achieve a
historical understanding of his ideas and to form critical
judgments about their value. To some extent these tow aims are
contradictory. On the one hand, one seeks to understand: what did
Durkheim really mean, how did he see the world, how did his ideas
related to one another and how did they develop, how did they
related to their biographical and historical context, how were they
received, what influence did they have and to what criticism were
they subjected, what was it like not to make certain distinctions,
not to see certain errors, of fact or of logic, not to know what
has subsequently become known? On the other hand, one seeks to
assess: how valuable and how valid are the ideas, to what fruitful
insights and explanations do they lead, how do they stand up to
analysis and to the evidence, what is their present value? Yet it
seems that it is only by inducing oneself not to see and only by
seeing them that one can make a critical assessment. The only
solution is to pursue both aims-seeing and not
seeing-simultaneously. More particularly, this book has the primary
object of achieving that sympathetic understanding without which no
adequate critical assessment is possible. It is a study in
intellectual history which is also intended as a contribution to
sociological theory.
General
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 1985 |
First published: |
August 1985 |
Authors: |
Steven Lukes
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade / Trade
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Pages: |
676 |
Edition: |
Anniversary |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8047-1283-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Social theory
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LSN: |
0-8047-1283-2 |
Barcode: |
9780804712835 |
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