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  • On Prayer

    Text and Commentary

    Edited by W. S. F. Pickering ...
    Series Book 0 - Publications of the Durkheim Press
    Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his most important work. His argument that much of prayer is a social act will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists and theologians.Here, the first English translation to be published, is ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Durkheim's Suicide

    A Century of Research and Debate

    Edited by W.S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The wide-ranging chapters cover such issues as the use of statistics, explanation of suicide, anomie and religion and the morality of suicide. It will ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Suffering and Evil

    The Durkheimian Legacy

    Edited by W. S. F. Pickering, Massimo Rosati ...
    Series Book 0 - Publications of the Durkheim Press
    Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well. This book aims to fill the gap, with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition, by exploring the different meanings that the concepts of evil and suffering have in Durkheim's works, together with the general role they play in his sociology. It also ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Emile Durkheim

    Selected Writings on Education

    Edited by W.S.F Pickering ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions
    Emile Durkheim is widely lauded as one of the founding fathers of modern Sociology and for his substantial contribution to the sociology of education. This set brings some of his most important writings on the subject together for the first time. ... Read more

    $249.99 USD

  • Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

    Edited by Alexander Tristan Riley, William Watts Miller, W. S. F. Pickering ...
    Series Book 0 - Publications of the Durkheim Press
    Using a broad definition of the Durkheimian tradition, this book offers the first systematic attempt to explore the Durkheimians’ engagement with art. It focuses on both Durkheim and his contemporaries as well as later thinkers influenced by his work. The first five chapters consider Durkheim’s own exploration of art; the remaining six look at other Durkheimian thinkers, including Marcel Mauss, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Durkheim and Representations

    Edited by W. S. F. Pickering ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    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. This set of papers by leading Durkheimians from Britain, America and continental Europe is the first concentrated attempt to understand what he meant by representations, how his ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Durkheim and Modern Education

    Edited by W.S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    This volume explores Durkheim's place in modern educational thought at three different levels: * Durkheim's ideas on education are analyzed and placed in the context of modern society * current educational issues are explored using a Durkheimian framework * Durkheim's thought is related to that of modern educational theorists to reveal his enduring influence In discussing Durkheim's modern ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life

    Edited by N.J. Allen, W.S.F. Pickering, W. Watts Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. It represents the work of the most important international Durkheim scholars from the fields of anthropology, philosophy and sociology. The essays focus on key topics including:* the method Durkheim adopted in his study* the role of ritual and belief in society* the nature of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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  • From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility

    A Selection from Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy

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    Translated by G.M. Goshgarian ...
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  • Liminality and the Modern

    Living Through the In-Between

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