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Epistemology and practice : Durkheim's The elementary forms of religious life / Anne Warfield Rawls

Author
Rawls, Anne Warfield, 1950-
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 355 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Durkheim's Outline of the Argument in the Introductory Chapter; 2 Durkheim's Dualism: an Anti-Kantian, Anti-Rationalist Position; 3 Sacred and Profane: the First Classification; 4 Totemism and the Problem of Individualism; 5 The Origin of Moral Force; 6 The Primacy of Rites in the Origin of Causality; 7 Imitative Rites and the Category of Causality; 8 The Category of Causality; 9 Logic, Language and Science; 10 Durkheim's Conclusion Section iv: Logical Argument for Social Origin of the Categories. and ConclusionBibliography; Index.
Summary
In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life has been consistently misunderstood. It is his crowning achievement and an attempt to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations.
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ISBN
0511080662 (electronic bk.)
9780511080661 (electronic bk.)
9780511488849 (electronic bk.)
051148884X (electronic bk.)
0511297874
9780511297878
9780511079900 (electronic bk.)
0511079907 (electronic bk.)
1280417560
9781280417566
1107128307
9781107128309
0511170726
9780511170720
0511196202
9780511196201
052165145X (Cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index.
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