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- Title
Durkheim's French Neo-Kantian Social Thought: Epistemology, Sociology of Knowledge, and Morality in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
- Authors
Garlitz, Dustin
- Abstract
This article presents Durkheim as a Neo-Kantian social thinker and a source of the theory of emotional contagion. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is examined as Durkheim's paradigm case of Neo-Kantianism. He is first considered among the intellectual context of French Neo-Kantianism and its figures Charles Renouvier, Émile Boutroux, and Octave Hamelin, all whom were influential in his formative years. Durkheim's Neo-Kantianism in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is then juxtaposed to the Neo-Kantian legal philosophy of Emil Lask and Hans Kelsen. Agued is that Durkheim's notions of distortion and emotional contagion are his leading contributions to Neo-Kantianism.
- Subjects
SOCIAL epistemology; SOCIOLOGY of knowledge; RELIGIOUS life; EMOTIONAL contagion; JURISPRUDENCE; KELSEN, Hans, 1881-1973
- Publication
Kant Yearbook, 2020, Vol 12, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
1868-4599
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kantyb-2020-0002