Rawls1997a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Anne Warfield Rawls |
| Title | Durkheim and pragmatism: an old twist on a contemporary debate |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Durkheim, Pragmatism |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Sociological Theory |
| Volume | 15 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 5–29 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1111/0735-2751.00021 |
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Abstract
Durkheim's lectures on pragmatism, given in 1913–14, constitute both a significant critique of pragmatism and a clarification of Durkheim's own position. Unfortunately, these lectures have received little attention, most of it critical. When they have been taken seriously, the analysis tends to focus on their historical context and not on the details of Durkheim's actual argument. This is partly because the tendency to interpret Durkheim's theory of knowledge in idealist terms makes a nonsense of his criticisms of pragmatism. It is also due to a lack of serious appraisal of the lectures as a series of arguments in their own right.
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