The political Durkheim : sociology, socialism, legacies
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The political Durkheim : sociology, socialism, legacies
(Routledge studies in social and political thought)
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-207) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist, inspired by and advocating socialism. Through a series of studies, it argues that Durkheim's normative vision, which can be called libertarian socialism, shaped his sociological critique and search for alternatives. With attention to the value of this political sociology as a means of understanding our contemporary world, the author asks us to look again at Durkheim. While Durkheim's legacy has often emphasised the supposed conservative elements and stability advocated in his thought, we can point to a different legacy, one of a radical sociology. In dialogue with the decolonial critique, this volume also asks 'was Durkheim white?' and in doing so shows how, as a Jew, he experienced significant racialisation in his lifetime. A new reading and a vital image of a 'political Durkheim', The Political Durkheim will appeal to scholars and students with interests in Durkheim, social theory and political sociology.
Table of Contents
Introduction: In Defence of the Political Durkheim
Part 1: Socialism
1. Durkheim's Alternative: Curing the Malaise
2. Individualism through Association: The Libertarian Socialism of Emile Durkheim and G.D.H. Cole
3. 'An Army of Civil Servants': Max Weber and Emile Durkheim on Socialism
Part 2: Politics
4. The COVID Malaise: The Failed Mission of Justice, Pseudo-Democracy and a Politics of the Future after the Pandemic
5. Social Solidarity, Penal Evolution and Probation (with Fergus McNeill)
6. 'An Apotheosis of Well-Being': Durkheim on Austerity and Double-Dip Recessions
Part 3: Legacies
7. A Salute to the Exegetical Giddens: Durkheim Scholar
8. Morality as Rebellion: Towards a Partial Reconciliation of Bauman and Durkheim
10. The Elementary Forms of Sociological Knowledge: Durkheim in British Sociology Textbooks
Postscript: Was Durkheim White? Anti-Semitism and the Dangers of Binary Racialised Readings of the Canon
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