Overview

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.

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Author:   Johannes F.M. Schick ,  Mario Schmidt ,  Martin Zillinger
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   43
ISBN:  

9781800732339

ISBN 10:   1800732333
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   11 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Müller 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 Schüttpelz 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 Pensée Catégorique: Marcel Granet’s Grand Sinological Project at the Heart of the “L‘Année Sociologique” Tradition Robert André LaFleur Chapter 14. Drawing a Line: On Hertz’ Hands Ulrich van Loyen Chapter 15. Between Claude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, or: What Is the Meaning of Mauss’ “Total Social Fact”? Jean-François 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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It makes a clear contribution to its field by a group of scholars with a coherent nucleus in Germany, many of whom have been researching this topic for years, if not decades ... it represents the culmination, at least for the time being, of work on these issues (the Durkheimians and the categories). Robert Parkin, University of Oxford This is a collective book from international scholars assessing the legacy of the Durkheim school of sociology through the epistemological question of the origins of categories of thought ... This is a significant contribution to the historical epistemology in France. Frederic Keck, Director of Research at the Laboratory of Social Anthropology (CNRS-College de France-EHESS).

‘By highlighting lesser-known influences on Durkheim and Mauss, [this book] enriches our understanding of the category project and its relevance to the evolution of social thought. For those willing to engage deeply with its content, this work provides many valuable insights.” • Anthropos “It makes a clear contribution to its field by a group of scholars with a coherent nucleus in Germany, many of whom have been researching this topic for years, if not decades … it represents the culmination, at least for the time being, of work on these issues (the Durkheimians and the categories).” • Robert Parkin, University of Oxford “This is a collective book from international scholars assessing the legacy of the Durkheim school of sociology through the epistemological question of the origins of categories of thought … This is a significant contribution to the historical epistemology in France.” • Frédéric Keck, Director of Research at the Laboratory of Social Anthropology (CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS).

Author Information

Johannes F.M. Schick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities (University of Cologne). He was the head of the DFG-research Project “Action, Operation, Gesture: Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology”.

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