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Article: Durkheim, morals and modernity.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.
The title is misleading. It makes this book sound like dozens of other books on Durkheim, morals, and modernity -- and therefore less than enticing. However, on the contrary, the book itself proves to be novel, fascinating, and for the most part well worth reading. The author's project is simultaneously to reinterpret, rewrite, critique, and defend Durkheim, improving and completing his theory in the process. This project is, obviously, extremely complicated, but the book is so well-written that nevertheless, it is perfectly clear.
I will begin by addressing the book's most impressive and ...