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

by William Watts Miller

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.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published February 29, 1996

Reviews

[Jessica Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

A critical look at Durkheim's philosophical sociology and how one develops a science of morals. An excellent approachable read that should be studied by anyone concerned with how society forms the individual and the individual forms society. A new favorite read.