Elgar Companion to Émile Durkheim

Edited by Marcel Fournier, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Université de Montréal and Paul Carls, PhD Political Science, Université de Montréal, Canada

‘Durkheim is not dead. After a long period of profound misunderstandings, his work is now increasingly recognized as a fascinating source of inspiration for the social sciences, especially in areas concerning religion and the sacralization of secular content. This Companion enriches our knowledge with a wealth of highly original contributions from outstanding experts on Durkheim's work.’

• Contents1 Why Durkheim? Defending Durkheimian sociology 1Marcel Fournier and Paul CarlsPART I LIFE AND CONTEXT2 Émile Durkheim as university administrator 15Marcel Fournier3 The Dreyfus Affair: between literature, social sciences, and medical sciences 40Frédéric Keck4 Durkheim and the liberal tradition 58Giovanni PaolettiPART II THE RECEPTION AND LEGACY OF DURKHEIM’S WORK5 Durkheim’s enemies 82Steven Lukes6 Durkheim and the postcolonial critique 89George Steinmetz7 The Durkheimian legacy in symbolic anthropology 107Andrea Cossu8 Durkheim in the Bay Area: Bellah’s creative reading as a beautiful case of reception 125Jean-Louis Fabiani9 A Durkheimian age: the Durkheimian tradition and the study of religion in the twenty-first century 141Romulo Lelis10 Durkheim, religion, and the sociology of nationalism 159Geneviève Zubrzycki and Paul Christopher JohnsonPART III THEMES IN SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICS11 A Durkheimian environmental social theory 177Mark Cladis 12 The triple core of Durkheimian moral sociology 193Raquel Andrade Weiss13 Durkheim’s collective effervescence and Weber’s charisma: updating or stretching kindred concepts for the post-post-Cold War world? 212Laurence McFalls14 The parallax of exclusion: Durkheim, Bataille, and Foucault 228Ronjon Paul Datta15 Revisiting Durkheim on women, feminism, and equality 255Tara Milbrandt16 Against the caprice of wills: Durkheim on sex, marriage, and family 274Alexander Riley17 Durkheim’s weakest monograph? A Popperian reconsideration of Suicide 289Wout Ultee18 Reading Durkheim through the prism of criminology: from The Division of Labour in Society to The Elementary Forms of Religious Life 310Matthieu BéraPART IV DURKHEIM AND CONSCIOUSNESS19 Durkheim as master of suspicion 331Paul Carls20 How to deal with objectivity? An appraisal of Merleau-Ponty’s reading of Durkheim 350Carlos Belvedere21 What is conscience? 367Susan Stedman Jones22 Logical conformism and moral conformism among the moderns: what remains of Durkheim’s sociology of knowledge? 385Gildas SalmonIndex 406