Durkheim & Critique

Nicola Marcucci is a member of the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d'études sur les réflexivités - Fonds Yan Thomas (LYER-FYT) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France and he is Hans Speier Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Hegel and Durkheim. Contours of an elective affinity.- 3. The Authority of Revolution: Durkheim after Arendt.- 4. Winch and Durkheim. The difficulty of social reality.- 5. Anomie: On the link between Social Pathology and Social Ontology.- 6. From Society to Social Practices: Proposal for a New Theory of Ideology.- 7. The Constraint of Justice. Durkheim on Modern Solidarity and Freedom as Non-Exploitation.- 8. Durkheim Self-regulating “Constitutive” Social Practices: An Unexplored Critical Relevance to Racial Justice, Consensus Thinking, and the Covid-19 Pandemic.- 9. Politics of Durkheim: Politics, Humanity, State.- 10. Socialism as a reaction to Nationalism. A Durkheimian Perspective.