The Social Origins of Thought
eBook - PDF

The Social Origins of Thought

Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project

  1. 332 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Social Origins of Thought

Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project

About this book

By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology.  With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the "category project" which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vice versa.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
No, books cannot be downloaded as external files, such as PDFs, for use outside of Perlego. However, you can download books within the Perlego app for offline reading on mobile or tablet. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
  • Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
  • Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
Both plans are available with monthly, semester, or annual billing cycles.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access The Social Origins of Thought by Johannes F.M. Schick,Mario Schmidt,Martin Zillinger in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Figures
  3. Introduction — The Durkheim School’s “Category Project”: A Collaborative Experiment Unfolds
  4. Part I — Silenced Influences and Hidden Texts
  5. Chapter 1 — Kantian Categories and the Relativist Turn: A Comparison of Three Routes
  6. Chapter 2 — Hidden Durkheim and Hidden Mauss: An Empirical Rereading of the Hidden Analogical Work Made Necessary by the Creation of a New Science
  7. Chapter 3 — Mana in Context: From Max MĂŒller to Marcel Mauss
  8. Chapter 4 — Durkheim, the Question of the Categories, and the Concept of Labor
  9. Chapter 5 — Inequality is a Scientific Issue when the Technologies of Practice that Create Social Categories become Dependent on Justice in Modernity
  10. Chapter 6 — Experimenting with Social Matter: Claude Bernard’s Influence on the Durkheim School’s Understanding of Categories
  11. Part II — Lateral Links and Ambivalent Antagonists
  12. Chapter 7 — Freedom, Food, and the Total Social Fact: Some Terminology Details of the Category Project in “Le Don” by Marcel Mauss
  13. Chapter 8 — Durkheimian Thinking and the Category of Totality
  14. Chapter 9 — Durkheimian Creative Effervescence, Bergson, and the Ethology of Animal and Human Societies
  15. Chapter 10 — “It Is Not My Time that Is Thus Arranged
”: Bergson, the “Category Project,” and the Structuralist Turn
  16. Chapter 11 — “Let Us Dare a Little Bit of Metaphysics”: Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Louis Weber on the Categories of Causality, Time, and Technology
  17. Part III — Forgotten Allies and Secret Students
  18. Chapter 12 — The Rhythm of Space: Stefan Czarnowski’s Relational Theory of the Sacred
  19. Chapter 13 — La PensĂ©e CatĂ©gorique: Marcel Granet’s Grand Sinological Project at the Heart of the L’AnnĂ©e Sociologique Tradition
  20. Chapter 14 — Drawing a Line: On Hertz’s Hands
  21. Chapter 15 — Between Claude LĂ©vi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, or What is the Meaning of Mauss’s “Total Social Fact”?
  22. Chapter 16 — From Durkheim to Halbwachs: Rebuilding the Theory of Collective Representations
  23. Chapter 17 — Durkheim’s Quest: Philosophy beyond the Classroom and the Libraries
  24. Index