Action and the Question of the Categories
A Critique of Rawls
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12586186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Stedman Jones (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Durkheimian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-024X • E-ISSN: 1752-2307 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ds.2006.120106 |
| OpenAlex | W2051779308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 1 |
Durkheim's account of the categories is re-examined, in a critique of the fundamentally mistaken and philosophically uninformed interpretation put forward in Rawls's Epistemology and Practice (2004). This converts Durkheim into a pragmatist, even a behaviourist, more or less reducing conscience to an epiphenomenon of sounds, movements, and socially generated raw emotions. She bypasses the key role of representations and symbols, while her emphasis on collective 'forces' ignores Durkheim's concern with power as puissance and with the creativity of an effervescent fusion of energies. Thus action is central to his account of the categories, but not in the terms offered by Rawls. For action involves the full range of the functions of conscience. And these come into play through the power of representations and symbols, as an integral part of a whole creative fusion of energies and consciences in the 'dynamogenics' of collective action
Action (physics · Collective action · Conscience · Creativity · Epiphenomenon · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Pragmatism · Sociology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The question of category
Durkheim's argument on ritual, commemoration and aesthetic life
Refrações Morais E Cognitivas
Émile Durkheim
Durkheim e as formas elementares da vida religiosa
Representaciones, efervescencia colectiva y reproducción social. Trazos para un debate en clave contemporánea
Les Formes à l'honneur
Creativity
From Ideas to Ideals
Does Infant Cognition Research Undermine Sociological Theory? A Critique of Bergesen's Attack on Durkheim
The origin of the inner voice
Forms of thought and forms of society
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.81 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |