Durkheim & Critique

This book investigates the relation between Durkheim's sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences. The book is organized in four sections: confronting Durkheim and other critical traditions; inquiring his social and critical ontology; interrogating the relation between social practices and justice; and discussing his relevance in contemporary politics and political theory. An international group of philosophers, sociologists, and critical theorists contribute to show Durkheim's reflection as an important complement-or an alternative-to the Hegelian-Marxist and post-structuralist conceptions of social critique. In this way, the book intends to inaugurate a new reflection on social critique at the intersection between philosophy and sociological theory.

1. Introduction. - 2. Hegel and Durkheim. Contours of an elective affinity. - 3. The Authority of Revolution: Durkheim after Arendt. - 4. Winch and Durkheim. The difficulty of social reality. - 5. Anomie: On the link between Social Pathology and Social Ontology. - 6. From Society to Social Practices: Proposal for a New Theory of Ideology. - 7. The Constraint of Justice. Durkheim on Modern Solidarity and Freedom as Non-Exploitation. - 8. Durkheim Self-regulating Constitutive Social Practices: An Unexplored Critical Relevance to Racial Justice, Consensus Thinking, and the Covid-19 Pandemic. - 9. Politics of Durkheim: Politics, Humanity, State. - 10. Socialism as a reaction to Nationalism. A Durkheimian Perspective.