Durkheim

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani sees Durkheim as the founder of sociology, which emerged in Marx's immediate wake, at the moment the continent of history was opened up12. He reads The Rules of Sociological Method closely and presents it as the work that gives sociology its autonomy: there the discipline breaks away from biology and history to find an object of its own, the social fact3. A commentary on this text is the origin of the formula "every science is defined by its object"4. He often returns to the definition of the social fact by the coercion it exerts on what is naturally spontaneous: laws forbid only what one wants to do, and constraint ranges from penal repression to laughter or ridicule56. He endorses the rule of "treating social facts as things", which is useful against introspection, and judges this sociologism preferable to today's neo-positivism and cognitivism78. From Suicide he takes the first quantified study: suicide is more frequent in Protestant settings, where someone who has strayed from the moral order is reintegrated with more difficulty910.

1. 1#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 27:38
2. 2Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 25:06
3. 3Pagani sans détours21 Sept 2019 · 16:33
4. 4#5.3 bis FaceBookLive / Questions13 Jan 2019 · 5:16
5. 5Platon14 Sept 2015 · 51:56
6. 6#4.5 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Feb 2018 · 1:30:28
7. 7«Rouges-bruns», «décolonial» : Faut-il utiliser la langue dominante ? • Q&A Philosophique • Pagani31 Mar 2021 · 13:38
8. 89 #18 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération3 Apr 2021 · 35:44
9. 9Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 118 Jun 2016 · 48:30
10. 10Musicosophie 14. Mozart derechef7 Feb 2021 · 42:58

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