Developments in the Phenomenological Reading of Durkheim's Work

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ID2554848
AuthorsHerman Coenen (Tilburg University, corresponding author)
Year1981
Volume59
Issue4
Pages951
Publication date1981-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Forces (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2577975
OpenAlexW4243056332
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

The opposition between phenomenological sociology and Durkheimian sociology is not as absolute as it is often presented. The various ways in which Durkheim's work has been read by phenomenological authors throughout the last fifty years testify to a development toward greater proximity, implying changes in phenomenologists' interpretation of Durkheim as well as in their own starting points. Beginning with an exposition of one of the most antithetical stands towards Durkheim, the article points out different phases of the aforementioned development: (1) A more or less total opposition; (2) A positive view of the challenge that phenomenologists can find in Durkheim's work and an attempt to incorporate it into their own viewpoints without really changing the latter; (3) A simultaneous reinterpretation of Durkheim's sociologism and the phenomenological notions of subjectivity and intentionality, on the common basis of a renewed insight into the corporeal character of human social phenomena

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Exposition (narrative) · Intentionality · Linguistics · Opposition (politics) · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reinterpretation · Sociology · Subjectivity · Viewpoints · Critical Realism in Sociology · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Engineering · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity

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