Ebook: The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on texts and references; Introduction: sociology and its history; Chapter 1 The reform that contained all other reforms; Chapter 2 The subtlety of things; Chapter 3 The perfection of personality; Chapter 4 A l'école des choses; Chapter 5 The yoke of necessity; Conclusion: sociology and irony; References; Index; Ideas in Context.;Drawing on a historicist perspective, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism using newly-discovered material to explore the significance of German social science in Durkheim's thought. This book will be invaluable to graduate students and scholars in sociology, social theory, social and political philosophy and history of ideas.