Matt Dawson

The Political Durkheim

Critical Sociology, Socialism, Legacies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through a series of studies, this book presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist. Looking beyond the conservative elements of Durkheim's thought, it argues that a radical sociology can be found in Durkheim's normative vision, shaped by what we might call libertarian socialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781032451725
• ISBN-10: 1032451726
• Artikelnr.: 71710695

Autorenporträt

Matt Dawson is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK, and the author of Social Theory for Alternative Societies and Late Modernity, Individualization and Socialism: An Associational Critique of Neoliberalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: In Defence of the Political Durkheim
Part 1: Socialism
1. Durkheim's Alternative: Curing the Malaise
2. Individualism through Association: The Libertarian Socialism of Émile
Durkheim and G.D.H. Cole
3. 'An Army of Civil Servants': Max Weber and Émile Durkheim on Socialism
Part 2: Politics
4. The COVID Malaise: The Failed Mission of Justice, Pseudo-Democracy and a
Politics of the Future after the Pandemic
5. Social Solidarity, Penal Evolution and Probation (with Fergus McNeill)
6. 'An Apotheosis of Well-Being': Durkheim on Austerity and Double-Dip
Recessions
Part 3: Legacies
7. A Salute to the Exegetical Giddens: Durkheim Scholar
8. Morality as Rebellion: Towards a Partial Reconciliation of Bauman and
Durkheim
10. The Elementary Forms of Sociological Knowledge: Durkheim in British
Sociology Textbooks
Postscript: Was Durkheim White? Anti-Semitism and the Dangers of Binary
Racialised Readings of the Canon