Durkheim & Critique

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Introduction
		Part I: Confronting Critical Traditions
		Part II: Social Ontology
		Part III: From Practices to Justice
		Part IV: Rethinking Politics
	Bibliography
Part I: Confronting Critical Traditions
	Chapter 2: Hegel and Durkheim: Contours of an Elective Affinity
		I
		II
		III
		IV
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: The Authority of Revolution: Durkheim After Arendt
		The Social and Its Science
		Authority
		Revolution
		Constitution
		Society, Socialism, and Sociology
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Winch and Durkheim: The Difficulty of Social Reality
		Introduction
		Winch’s Idea of a Social Science
		A Metaphysical Complexion: Winch’s Misunderstanding of Durkheim
		Winch Reconsidered and the Difficulty of Social Reality
		Winch, Durkheim and the Difficulty of Social Reality
		Bibliography
Part II: Social Ontology
	Chapter 5: Anomie: On the Link Between Social Pathology and Social Ontology
		Social Ontology
		Social Pathology
			Social Pathology as Failure of Spontaneous Consensus
			Social Pathology as Hypernomie, or the Forced Division of Labor
			Social Pathology as Moral Anomie
			Social Health and Individual Well-Being
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: From Society to Social Practices: Proposals for a New Theory of Ideology
		Introduction: Critical Theory and Revolution
		Society and Totality
		Critique of the Concept of Society I: Foucault
		Critique of the Concept of Society II: Rancière and Durkheimian Sociology
		Postscriptum: What About Ideology?
		Bibliography
Part III: From Practices to Justice
	Chapter 7: The Constraint of Justice: Durkheim on Modern Solidarity and Freedom as Non-exploitation
		Introduction
		I
		II
		III
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: Durkheim’s Self-Regulating “Constitutive” Practices: An Unexplored Critical Relevance to Racial Justice, Consensus Thinking, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
		The Importance of Durkheim’s Argument for the Possibility of Social Critique
		The Clash Between the Two Social Forms and Their Moral Prerequisites in the US
		“Dog-Whistles” Are Indexes into a Comprehensive Symbol System
		Self-Organizing Spaces Do Not Have Dog-Whistles
		Self-Regulating Spaces Do Not Lack Meaning/Morality
		Durkheim’s Vision of Sociology, Social Contract, and Studies of Social Interaction
		An Interactional Social Contract Approach to Meaning
		Conclusion
		References
Part IV: Rethinking Politics
	Chapter 9: Politics of Durkheim: Society, Humanity, State
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: Socialism as a Reaction to Nationalisms: A Durkheimian Perspective
		Socialism and Sociology
		Sociology’s Three-Way Break with the Philosophical Perspective
			The Break with Moral Philosophy
			The Break with Political Philosophy
			The Break with Philosophy of History
		From Sociology to Socialism
			The Ideal of Happiness
			The Tools of Reform
			The Value of Progress
		Toward a Self-Led Society
		References
Name Index
Subject Index