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The Domain of the Ideal
Durkheim and Sociological Critique
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 372
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What is critique? From what standpoints do we critique the world we live in? Where are we when we criticize? This book offers an engaging and innovative reading of Durkheimâs sociological project. It intends to show the contemporary relevance of his understanding of sociological critique. It offers a systematic account of his sociology focusing both on its classical philosophical sources and its contemporary usages. This interpretation moves toward a new way to confront the crisis of contemporary critique offering an alternative to the dominant languages existing in sociological theory, political philosophy and critical theory.
Nicola Marcucci is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, University of Roma Tre and member of the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire dâétudes sur les réflexivités â Fonds Yan Thomas at the Ãcole des Hautes Ãtudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has been a visiting researcher and visiting professor at several European and American universities. His most recent publications include two edited volumes: Durkheim & Critique (2021) and The Anthem Companion to Ãmile Durkheim (with G. Fitzi, 2022).
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction in the Contemporary Uneasiness of Critique
2 Sociological Critique in Three Philosophical Antinomies
â1âWhere Are We When We Critique?
â2âPhilosophy and Sociology: the Durkheimian Difference
â3âThe Domain of Durkheimian Critique
3 Society in the Mind
â1âSpinoza and Kant: Substance and Form
â2ââUne immense cooperationâ: a âsecond degreeâ Naturalism
â3âA Necessary Force: the Social Beyond the Antinomies of Reason
â4âTotality in History: Reason as Social Faculty
4 The Institution of Justice
â1âHobbes: Justice Instituted
â2âThe Obligation of Moderns and the Unthought of Solidarity
â3âSociety as a Condition of Individualism and Property
â4âThe Durkheimian Institution of Justice
â5âConclusion
5 The Authority of Revolution
â1âArendt: the Oblivion of Action and the Critique of the Social
â2âAuthority
â3âRevolution
â4âConstitution
â5âSocialism and History: the Work of the Ideal
6 Conclusion: the Critical Operations of Sociological Practice
Bibliography
Index
1 Introduction in the Contemporary Uneasiness of Critique
2 Sociological Critique in Three Philosophical Antinomies
â1âWhere Are We When We Critique?
â2âPhilosophy and Sociology: the Durkheimian Difference
â3âThe Domain of Durkheimian Critique
3 Society in the Mind
â1âSpinoza and Kant: Substance and Form
â2ââUne immense cooperationâ: a âsecond degreeâ Naturalism
â3âA Necessary Force: the Social Beyond the Antinomies of Reason
â4âTotality in History: Reason as Social Faculty
4 The Institution of Justice
â1âHobbes: Justice Instituted
â2âThe Obligation of Moderns and the Unthought of Solidarity
â3âSociety as a Condition of Individualism and Property
â4âThe Durkheimian Institution of Justice
â5âConclusion
5 The Authority of Revolution
â1âArendt: the Oblivion of Action and the Critique of the Social
â2âAuthority
â3âRevolution
â4âConstitution
â5âSocialism and History: the Work of the Ideal
6 Conclusion: the Critical Operations of Sociological Practice
Bibliography
Index
The book is of immediate interest for a wide public of sociologist, political philosopher, critical theorists both at graduate and under graduate level. More generally can be largerly received by academical institutions.