Durkheim, in his very role as a 'founding father' of a new
social science, sociology, has become like a gure in an old
religious painting, enshrouded in myth and encrusted in layers of
thick, impenetrable varnish. This book undertakes detailed,
up-to-date investigations of Durkheim's work in an effort to
restore its freshness and reveal it as originally created. These
investigations explore his particular ideas, within an overall
narrative of his initial problematic search for solidarity, how it
became a quest for the sacred and how, at the end of his life, he
embarked on a project for a new great work on ethics. A theme
running through this is his concern with a modern world in crisis
and his hope in social and moral reform. Accordingly, the book
concludes with a set of essays on modern times and on a crisis that
Durkheim thought would pass but which now seems here to stay.
William Watts Miller is editor of the journal, Durkheimian
Studies, author of various books and articles on Durkheim as well
as of translations of his writings and is one of the team of
international scholars co-operating on the first critical edition
of Durkheim's Complete Works.
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