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Epistemology and practice : Durkheim's The elementary forms of religious life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rawls, Anne Warfield, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Durkheim, Émile, > 1858-1917. > Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse.
Religion.
Totemism.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Durkheim's outline of the argument in the introductory chapter
  • Durkheim's dualism : an anti-Kantian anti-rationalist position
  • Sacred and profane : the first classification
  • Totemism and the problem of individualism
  • The origin of moral force
  • The primacy of rites in the origin of causality
  • Imitative rites and the category of causality
  • The category of causality
  • Logic, language and science
  • Durkheim's conclusion section iv : logical argument for the categories.