BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I RELIGION AS FONS ET ORIGO -- PART II MORAL AGENTS, SOCIAL BEINGS -- PART III THE ROLE OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL MORALIST AND THE MORALIST -- THE ROLE OF THE SCIENTIFIC MORALIST: DURKHEIM'S LEGACY -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Part I RELIGION AS FONS ET ORIGO -- 1 DURKHEIM AND LA CITE ANTIQUE -- FUSTEL DE COULANGES: BIOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL CONTEXT -- THE IDEAS OF LA CITÉ ANTIQUE (1864) -- DURKHEIM, FUSTEL, AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 2 THE ORIGINS OF CONCEPTUAL THINKING IN DURKHEIM -- CLASSIFICATION AND ABSTRACT CATEGORIES -- CLASSIFICATION, EMOTION AND THE SACRED -- RELIGION AND COSMOLOGY: KEYS TO EPISTEMOLOGY -- WHY TURN TO RELIGION? -- IS IT POSSIBLE TO DISENTANGLE THE RELIGIOUS FROM THE SOCIAL? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 DURKHEIM'S SOCIOLOGY OF LAW -- THE FUNCTIONS OF LAW AND PUNISHMENT -- STAGES OF SOCIAL AND LEGAL EVOLUTION -- THE STATE, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4 DURKHEIM'S POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY -- THE POLITICAL CRISIS -- BASIC PREMISES -- THE POLITICAL ANALYSES -- THE CORPORATIVE SOCIETY AND THE STATE -- NOTES -- -- 5 DURKHEIM AND SOCIAL MORPHOLOGY -- PRE-ANNÉE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL MORPHOLOGY -- SOCIAL MORPHOLOGY DURING THE YEARS OF THE ANNÉE SOCIOLOGIQUE -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part II MORAL AGENTS, SOCIAL BEINGS -- 6 DURKHEIM ON SOCIAL ACTION -- ORDER AND ACTION: SOCIAL FORCES VERSUS INDIVIDUAL FORCES -- The explanation of individual action -- The explanation of collective action -- Intermezzo on the typology of social action -- DETERMINISM AND VOLUNTARISM: THE ACTOR'S AUTONOMY -- Autonomy, consensus and the pluralism of values.

ACTION AND PARTICIPATION: STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OF DURKHEIM'S FRAMEWORK -- Represcntations and sentiments -- The link between the intensity of sentiments and the intensity of participation -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 ANOMIE AND FATALISM IN DURKHEIM'S THEORY OF REGULATION -- THE OCCULTATION OF FATALISM -- THE CONTRADICTIONS OF FATALISM: DESIRE AND REGULATION -- ACUTE ANOMIE AND CHRONIC ANOMIE -- REGRESSIVE ANOMIE AND PROGRESSIVE ANOMIE -- TYPOLOGY OF REGULATION -- THE UNITY OF ANOMIE -- NOTES -- Part III THE ROLE OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL MORALIST AND THE MORALIST -- 8 DURKHEIM'S SOCIOLOGY OF MORAL FACTS -- MORALITY AS OBLIGATION -- Positive morality -- The sanction as a criterion -- Morality and law -- From the normal to the normative -- THE TWO SIDES OF MORALITY -- Obligation and desirability -- Points of convergence and interpenetration -- The constraining objectivity of the value judgment -- Maintaining duality -- MORALITY, MORAL FACTS AND MORAL THEORY -- Society, foundation of the unity of morality -- Scientific knowledge and the autonomy of the will -- From moral science to moral art -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN DURKHEIM'S SOCIOLOGY -- PARAMETERS OF A READING -- LEGITIMATING A STRATIFIED AND INEGALITARIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- 'SOCIAL VALUE' AND FUNCTIONS -- SOCIAL CLASSES AND EXPLOITATION -- AN INTELLIGENT ORGANIZATION? -- DURKHEIM'S MISSION -- THE SPIRIT OF DURKHEIM TODAY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10 DURKHEIM'S INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT -- SOME BIOGRAPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- BEYOND KANTIANISM AND POSITIVISM -- DURKHEIM'S FINAL WORKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.