The Antinomies Of Classical Thought: Marx And Durkheim (theoretical Logic In Sociology)

by Jeffrey C. Alexander

2021-01-08 18:41:23

This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological material... Read more

This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx''s very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim''s case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist theorizing informed the early work alone, and he demonstrates that in his later writings Durkheim elaborated an idealist theory that used religious life as an analytical model for studying the institutions of secular society.

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0 in
Print pages592
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date January 28, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780415724227
Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale....

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