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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Using a broad definition of the Durkheimian tradition, this book
offers the first systematic attempt to explore the Durkheimians'
engagement with art. It focuses on both Durkheim and his
contemporaries as well as later thinkers influenced by his work.
The first five chapters consider Durkheim's own exploration of art;
the remaining six look at other Durkheimian thinkers, including
Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, Maurice Halbwachs, Claude Levi-Strauss,
Michel Leiris, and Georges Bataille. The contributors-scholars from
a range of theoretical orientations and disciplinary
perspectives-are known for having already produced significant
contributions to the study of Durkheim. This book will interest not
only scholars of Durkheim and his tradition but also those
concerned with aesthetic theory and the sociology and history of
art.
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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