Durkheim, Morals, and Modernity (McGill-Queen’s Studies in the Hist of Id) (Volume 20) - Hardcover

Watts Miller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773514449 ISBN 13: 9780773514447

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Watts Miller highlights Durkheim's communitarian route to liberalism and abolishes ill-conceived ideas that Durkheim is at heart conservative in outlook. The author shows that Durkheim's social science is rationalist, not positivist, and, in tackling all the "big questions," stands comparison with the work of David Hume and Immanuel Kant. Durkheim, Morals, and Modernity will be widely welcomed not only by students of social and political theory but also by scholars working in the fields of philosophy and history of ideas.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Durkheim, Morals and Modernity is an original and searching study of Durkheim's analysis of modern society, centered on its inherent ethics. Watts Miller shows how Durkheim's sociology of the modern world has been misinterpreted because of a clear failure to fully understand his ethical theory, and opens up Durkheim's ethics for sustained examination, also explaining his communitarian route to liberalism.

About the Author:

W. Watts Miller is a lecturer in sociology and philosophy at the University of Bristol, and a member of the Centre for Durkheimian Studies, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0773514449
• ISBN 13: 9780773514447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288