The Social Origins of Thought: Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project

CONTENTS\nFIGURES\nIntroduction THE DURKHEIM SCHOOL’S “CATEGORY PROJECT” A COLLABORATIVE EXPERIMENT UNFOLDS\nPART I Silenced Influences and Hidden Texts\nChapter 1 KANTIAN CATEGORIES AND THE RELATIVIST TURN A COMPARISON OF THREE ROUTES\nChapter 2 HIDDEN DURKHEIM AND HIDDEN MAUSS AN EMPIRICAL REREADING OF THE HIDDEN ANALOGICAL WORK MADE NECESSARY BY THE CREATION OF A NEW SCIENCE\nChapter 3 MANA IN CONTEXT FROM MAX MÜLLER TO MARCEL MAUSS\nChapter 4 DURKHEIM, THE QUESTION OF THE CATEGORIES, AND THE CONCEPT OF LABOR\nChapter 5 INEQUALITY IS A SCIENTIFIC ISSUE WHEN THE TECHNOLOGIES OF PRACTICE THAT CREATE SOCIAL CATEGORIES BECOME DEPENDENT ON JUSTICE IN MODERNITY\nChapter 6 EXPERIMENTING WITH SOCIAL MATTER CLAUDE BERNARD’S INFLUENCE ON THE DURKHEIM SCHOOL’S UNDERSTANDING OF CATEGORIES\nPART II Lateral Links and Ambivalent Antagonists\nChapter 7 FREEDOM, FOOD, AND THE TOTAL SOCIAL FACT SOME TERMINOLOGICAL DETAILS OF THE CATEGORY PROJECT IN “LE DON” BY MARCEL MAUSS\nChapter 8 DURKHEIMIAN THINKING AND THE CATEGORY OF TOTALITY\nChapter 9 DURKHEIMIAN CREATIVE EFFERVESCENCE, BERGSON, AND THE ETHOLOGY OF ANIMAL AND HUMAN SOCIETIES\nChapter 10 “IT IS NOT MY TIME THAT IS THUS ARRANGED . . .” BERGSON, THE “CATEGORY PROJECT,” AND THE STRUCTURALIST TURN\nChapter 11 “LET US DARE A LITTLE BIT OF METAPHYSICS” MARCEL MAUSS, HENRI HUBERT, AND LOUIS WEBER ON THE CATEGORIES OF CAUSALITY, TIME, AND TECHNOLOGY\nPART III Forgotten Allies and Secret Students\nChapter 12 THE RHYTHM OF SPACE. STEFAN CZARNOWSKI’S RELATIONAL THEORY OF THE SACRED\nChapter 13 LA PENSÉE CATÉGORIQUE. MARCEL GRANET’S GRAND SINOLOGICAL PROJECT AT THE HEART OF THE L’ANNÉE SOCIOLOGIQUE TRADITION\nChapter 14 DRAWING A LINE. ON HERTZ’S HANDS\nChapter 15 BETWEEN CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS, PIERRE BOURDIEU, AND MICHEL FOUCAULT, OR WHAT IS THE MEANING OF MAUSS’S “TOTAL SOCIAL FACT”?\nChapter 16 FROM DURKHEIM TO HALBWACHS. REBUILDING THE THEORY OF COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATIONS\nChapter 17 DURKHEIM’S QUEST. PHILOSOPHY BEYOND THE CLASSROOM AND THE LIBRARIES\nINDEX