Durkheim

The Sacred Language

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2160231
AutoresMike Gane (autor de correspondencia)
Año1983
Volumen12
Número1
Páginas1-47
Fecha de publicación1983-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomy and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03085148300000006
OpenAlexW2073246644
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas16

Durkheim's conception of language is presented against the background of his conceptualisation of social facts and is contrasted with that of Saussure. It is suggested that by emphasinsing the externality of the social fact relative to the individual Durkheim is led to the proposion that the social expresses itself through means characterised by their externality.Durkheim's objective social logos is graphocentric; the sacred is, above all, written. It is argued that Durkheim's problem in The Elementary Forms is to show that thte division between the sacred and profane is established via a differentiation of languages articulated in the primary forms of social domination If the moral force sustaining the believer does not come from the idol he adores or the emblem he venerates, still it is from outside of him as he is well aware. The objectivity of its symbol only translates its externalness (L'objectivi ́ du symbole ne fait que traduire cette ext ́riorit ́) (Durkheim, (1961:264;1960:33).it has sometimes been contested that speech clothed thought But has it ever been doubted that writing was the clothing of speech? (Derrida, 1976:35).if the soul is going to clothe (reêtir) a new personality in each generation, the individual froms in which is successively develops itself must all be equally external to it, and have nothing to do with its true nature (Durkheim, 1961:300

Aesthetics · Art · Emblem · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Nothing · Sociology · Soul · Symbol (formal · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · French Urban and Social Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy