Anne Warfield Rawls is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bentley College, Massachusetts. She has a background in both sociology and philosophy and has published extensively on social theory and social justice.
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: logical argument for the categories
Conclusion.
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: logical argument for the categories; Conclusion.