Betwixt and Between
Suicide, Sociology, and the Problem of Meaning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3970314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Doidge (0000-0003-2240-2433, Australian Catholic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 435-455 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2022.2041793 |
| OpenAlex | W4221090944 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, rising rates of suicide were widely held to be indicative of a pervasive crisis of meaning. This article examines the response to the problem of suicide in the thought of Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. It argues that their engagement with the problem captured what each of them felt to be core truths surrounding the human condition as well as the most pressing contemporary social ailments. Read together, their thought is illustrative of the fruitful relationship that sociology had with philosophy, literature and the other arts during its formation as a discipline. It was a relationship that was particularly conducive to the examination of the problem of meaning. The discussion of suicide during this period is illustrative of key themes within classical sociology that have become increasingly marginalised in contemporary sociology with the narrowing of its fields of inquiry
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Fyodor · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The arts · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Durkheim's Suicide
Recovering a disillusioned modernism
The Anxiety of Ascent
Uses of Literature
The Interpretation of Cultures
The cultural contradictions of capitalism
Durkheim's Religious Revival The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Emile Durkheim , Karen E. Fields
Sociological Imagination
The Oversocialized Conception of Man
Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y
Victorian Suicide
Cultures and Societies in a Changing World
The Rules of Art
Towards sociology from the arts
More than just a product
Dostoevsky
Toward a Cultural-Structural Theory of Suicide
Consciousness and Society
When Too Much Integration and Regulation Hurts
Sociology Faces Pessimism
Constructing a Sociology of the Arts
The Return of the Sacred
The Suicide Problem in French Sociology
Sociology Through Literature
Modernity and the Problem of Meaning
Modernity, Meaning, and Cultural Pessimism in Max Weber
The Social World as Will and Idea
Death and the Modern Imagination
Validity in Interpretation
Sociological Imagination and Literary Intuition
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |