The social origins of thought : Durkheim, Mauss, and the category project

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    • Schick, Johannes F. M.
    • Schmidt, Mario
    • Zillinger, Martin

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The social origins of thought : Durkheim, Mauss, and the category project

edited by Johannes F.M. Schick, Mario Schmidt, and Martin Zillinger

(Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 43)

Berghahn, 2022

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the "category project" which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vice versa.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction: The Durkheim School's "Category Project": A Collaborative Experiment Unfolds Johannes F.M. Schick, Mario Schmidt, and Martin Zillinger Part I: Silenced Influences and Hidden Texts Chapter 1. Kantian Categories and the Relativist Turn: A Comparison of Three Routes Gregory Schrempp Chapter 2. Hidden Durkheim and Hidden Mauss: An Empirical Rereading of the Hidden Analogical Work Made Necessary by the Creation of a New Science Nicolas Sembel Chapter 3. Mana in Context: From Max Muller to Marcel Mauss Nicolas Meylan Chapter 4. Durkheim, the Question of the Categories and the Concept of Labor Susan Stedman Jones Chapter 5. Inequality Is a Scientific Issue When the Technologies of Practice That Create Social Categories Become Dependent on Justice in Modernity Anne Warfield Rawls Chapter 6. Experimenting with Social Matter: Claude Bernard's Influence on the Durkheim School's Understanding of Categories Mario Schmidt Part II: Lateral Links and Ambivalent Antagonists Chapter 7. Freedom, Food, and the Total Social Fact. Some Terminological Details of the Category Project in "Le Don" by Marcel Mauss Erhard Schuttpelz Chapter 8. Durkheimian Thinking and the Category of Totality Nick J. Allen Chapter 9. Durkheimian Creative Effervescence, Bergson and the Ethology of Animal and Human Societies William Watts Miller Chapter 10. "It is not my time that is thus arranged...": Bergson, the 'Category Project', and the Structuralist Turn Heike Delitz Chapter 11. "Let Us Dare a Little Bit of Metaphysics": Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert and Louis Weber on Causality, Time, and Technology Johannes F. M. Schick Part III: Forgotten Allies and Secret Students Chapter 12. The Rhythm of Space: Stefan Czarnowski's Relational Theory of the Sacred Martin Zillinger Chapter 13. La Pensee Categorique: Marcel Granet's Grand Sinological Project at the Heart of the "L'Annee Sociologique" Tradition Robert Andre LaFleur Chapter 14. Drawing a Line: On Hertz' Hands Ulrich van Loyen Chapter 15. Between Claude Levi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, or: What Is the Meaning of Mauss' "Total Social Fact"? Jean-Francois Bert Chapter 16. From Durkheim to Halbwachs: Rebuilding the Theory of Collective Representations Jean-Christoph Marcel Chapter 17. Durkheim's Quest: Philosophy beyond the Classroom and the Libraries Wendy James Index

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