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Languages of Belief and Early Sociology in Nineteenth-Century France The Elementary Forms of Sociological Life
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Languages of Belief and Early Sociology in Nineteenth-Century France [electronic resource] : The Elementary Forms of Sociological Life / by Michiel Van Dam.
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9783031700231
Edition
1st ed. 2024.
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Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
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1 online resource (X, 331 p.)
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Summary
This book presents a new reading of the history of French social science and religion through an investigation of early sociology's techniques for narrating the category of belief. The author argues that by looking at the history of social sciences in this manner, we gain a deeper understanding of both our present debates on post-secularity as well as our modernist past, both of which were thoroughly shaped by their reflections and critiques on the notion of belief yet failed to enter into any sort of meaningful communication with each other. This book seeks to rectify this failure by introducing the concept of 'belief-languages', an anthropological framework designed to historicize different discussions on belief and allow for their comparative description and analysis. Michiel Van Dam is an intellectual historian, specializing in the historical anthropology of techniques of self-historicization and -government during (early) modernity. He is currently affiliated with the University of Antwerp as a post-doctoral researcher.
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English
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October 14, 2024
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: On the Possibility of A Sociological Mode of Existence. Bruno Latour and the Post-Secular Critiques of Belief
Chapter 3: Historicizing the Sociological Belief/Knowledge-Composition: Theories and Method
Chapter 4: Early Experiments in the Sociological Operation I: Languages of Belief within the French Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Culture
Chapter 5: Early Experiments in the Sociological Operation II. The Christian Sociologism of Louis de Bonald
Chapter 6: Early Experiments in the Sociological Operation III. The Socialist Sociologisms of Saint-Simon and the Saint-Simonists
Chapter 7: Sociology as Institution and as Spiritual Authority. Languages of Belief in the Work of Auguste Comte
Chapter 8: Narrating Solidarity through the Division of Belief: Durkheim and the History of Belief Systems
Chapter 9: The Varieties of Sociological Experience. Durkheimian Belief/Knowledge-Compositions
Chapter 10: Epilogue: Sociology and Belief Beyond Positivism
Chapter 11: Concluding Remarks: Returning to the Post-Secular.
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