DURKHEIM AND REPRESENTATIONS
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loginDurkheim’s sociological thought is based on the premise that the worldcannot be known as a thing in itself, but only through representations, roughapproximations of the world created either individually or collectively.Durkheim and Representations is a set of papers by leading Durkheimians fromBritain, America and continental Europe. It is the first concentrated attemptto understand what he meant by representations, how his understanding ofthe term was influenced by Kant and by neo-Kantians like Charles Renouvier,and how his use of the concept in his work developed over time.By arguing that his use of representations is at the core of Durkheim’ssociological thought, this book makes a unique contribution to Durkheimianstudies which have recently been dominated by positivist and functionalistinterpretations, and reveals a thinker very much in tune with contemporarydevelopments in philosophy, linguistics and sociology.
