The book is addressed to scholars and students in sociology and in phenomenological philosophy. It presents the work of Durkheim in a new light and discusses the prevailing interpretations in the collective intentionality approach. It also provides a fresh conception of collective consciousness which illuminates features unattended by the traditions initiated by John Searle, Dan Zahavi and the Center for Subjectivity Research, and the Nordic Society of Phenomenology. This lucidly written book is of interest to students and scholars researching Durkheim's, Husserl’s and Schutz’s works.
Author(s): Carlos Belvedere
Series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 67
City: Cham
Foreword
Contents
Chapter 1: Looking for Durkheim
1.1 Durkheim in a Contemporary Context
1.2 Durkheim in the Phenomenological Tradition
1.3 Losing Track of Durkheim
Chapter 2: Durkheim as a Phenomenologist
2.1 Cartesian Spiritualism and the Context of Durkheim´s Sociology
2.2 Almost a Neo-Cartesianism: Methodological Convergences
2.3 Durkheim´s Practice of Static Phenomenology
2.4 The Quest for Origins as a Practice of Genetic Phenomenology
2.5 Durkheim and the Phenomenological Approach to Consciousness
Chapter 3: Durkheim and the Philosophy of Consciousness
3.1 Consciousness, a Central Concept Cast in Oblivion
3.2 Representations and Intentionality
3.3 Representation and the Philosophy of Consciousness
3.4 Durkheim´s Sociology as ``an Extension of Kantianism´´
3.5 Representations as a Clue for Intentional Analysis
Chapter 4: An Objectivity Sui Generis
4.1 A Brief Note on Intentional Analysis
4.2 Back to Social Things Themselves
4.3 Social Facts Are Things!
4.4 A Few Words on the Phenomenology of Ideal Objects
4.5 Social Things as Ideal Objectivities
4.6 Sacred Things and the Ontological Regions of the Social
4.7 New Directions
Chapter 5: Durkheim and the Transcendental
5.1 Intentional Analysis and Phenomenological Sociology
5.2 Agreements and Disagreements About the Subject of Categories
5.3 Durkheim´s Way Out of the Empiricism and Apriorism Dilema
5.4 Sociological Theory Versus Transcendental Philosophy
5.5 Unmasking the Monster
Chapter 6: Durkheim´s Forgotten Argument
6.1 Collective Consciousness as the Ensemble of Social Similarities
6.2 Sociology and Formal Psychology
6.3 Two Consciousness, One Single Substratum
6.4 The Life of the Group
6.5 Durkheim´s Argument, Again
Chapter 7: Finding Durkheim
7.1 Husserl and Durkheim
7.2 Husserl on Collective Consciousness
7.3 Schutz on Social Facts
7.4 One Durkheim
7.5 Lost and Found
7.6 Durkheim Makes Sense
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