The Elgar Companion to Émile Durkheim

Edited by Marcel Fournier and Paul Carls

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This fascinating book explores the life and work of Émile Durkheim, presenting new and exciting interpretations of his foundational sociological ideas. By tracing the evolution of his thought and its impact on key areas of inquiry, the book demonstrates Durkheim’s continuing significance in contemporary social science.

Keywords: Collective Representations; Morality; Suicide; Religion; Liberalism; Dreyfus Affair (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035322923
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Why Durkheim? Defending Durkheimian sociology

Marcel Fournier and Paul Carls

Ch 2 Émile Durkheim as university administrator

Marcel Fournier

Ch 3 The Dreyfus Affair: between literature, social sciences, and medical sciences

Frédéric Keck

Ch 4 Durkheim and the liberal tradition

Giovanni Paoletti

Ch 5 Durkheim's enemies

Steven Lukes

Ch 6 Durkheim and the postcolonial critique

George Steinmetz

Ch 7 The Durkheimian legacy in symbolic anthropology

Andrea Cossu

Ch 8 Durkheim in the Bay Area: Bellah's creative reading as a beautiful case of reception

Jean-Louis Fabiani

Ch 9 A Durkheimian age: the Durkheimian tradition and the study of religion in the twenty-first century

Romulo Lelis

Ch 10 Durkheim, religion, and the sociology of nationalism

Geneviève Zubrzycki and Paul Christopher Johnson

Ch 11 A Durkheimian environmental social theory

Mark Cladis

Ch 12 The triple core of Durkheimian moral sociology

Raquel Andrade Weiss

Ch 13 Durkheim's collective effervescence and Weber's charisma: updating or stretching kindred concepts for the post-post-Cold War world?

Laurence McFalls

Ch 14 The parallax of exclusion: Durkheim, Bataille, and Foucault

Ronjon Paul Datta

Ch 15 Revisiting Durkheim on women, feminism, and equality

Tara Milbrandt

Ch 16 Against the caprice of wills: Durkheim on sex, marriage, and family

Alexander Riley

Ch 17 Durkheim's weakest monograph? A Popperian reconsideration of Suicide

Wout Ultee

Ch 18 Reading Durkheim through the prism of criminology: from The Division of Labour in Society to The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Matthieu Béra

Ch 19 Durkheim as master of suspicion

Paul Carls

Ch 20 How to deal with objectivity? An appraisal of Merleau-Ponty's reading of Durkheim

Carlos Belvedere

Ch 21 What is conscience?

Susan Stedman Jones

Ch 22 Logical conformism and moral conformism among the moderns: what remains of Durkheim's sociology of knowledge?

Gildas Salmon

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