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DURKHEIM AND
REPRESENTATIONS
Durkheim’s sociological thought is based on the premise that the world
cannot be known as a thing in itself, but only through representations, rough
approximations of the world created either individually or collectively.
Durkheim and Representations is a set of papers by leading Durkheimians from
Britain, America and continental Europe. It is the first concentrated attempt
to understand what he meant by representations, how his understanding of
the term was influenced by Kant and by neo-Kantians like Charles Renouvier,
and how his use of the concept in his work developed over time.
By arguing that his use of representations is at the core of Durkheim’s
sociological thought, this book makes a unique contribution to Durkheimian
studies which have recently been dominated by positivist and functionalist
interpretations, and reveals a thinker very much in tune with contemporary
developments in philosophy, linguistics and sociology.
The editor, W.S.F.Pickering, is a founder member and the General Secretary
of the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in Oxford. He has edited and
assisted in translations of Durkheim’s work with publications such as
Durkheim and Religion, Durkheim on Morals and Education, Durkheim’s Sociology
of Religion: Themes and Theories and Debating Durkheim, all published by
Routledge.
CONTENTS
List of contributors
xi
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction
1
PART I
The intellectual territory
9
1
Representations as understood by Durkheim:
an introductory sketch
11
W.S.F.PICKERING
PART II
Historical issues
25
2
Representations in Durkheim’s Sens lectures: an early
approach to the subject
27
WARREN SCHMAUS
3
Representation in Durkheim’s masters: Kant and
Renouvier
37
I: Representation, reality and the question of science
SUE STEDMAN JONES
4
Representation in Durkheim’s masters: Kant and
Renouvier
59
II: Representation and logic
SUE STEDMAN JONES
ix
CONTENTS
PART III
Specific issues
81
5
A change in ideas: collective consciousness, morphology
and collective representations
83
DÉNES NÉMEDI
6
What do representations represent? The issue of reality
98
W.S.F.PICKERING
7
Representation and belief: Durkheim’s rationalism and
the Kantian tradition
118
GIOVANNI PAOLETTI
PART IV
Evaluation
137
8
Meaning and representation in the social sciences
139
WARREN SCHMAUS
9
Collective representations as social institutions
157
DAVID BLOOR
References
167
x
Index
177

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