1. Introduction: Some Reasons for (Re)reading Durkheim Today Hans Joas and Andreas Pettenkofer 2. Durkheim's Signature Project: The Science of Morality as Rational Moral Art Mark S. Cladis 3. Solidarity and Attachment in Durkheim's Sociological Thought Serge Paugam 4. The Sociality of Mind: Key Arguments, Inner Tensions, and Divergent Appropriations of Durkheim's Sociology of Knowledge Frithjof Nungesser 5. In Defense of Collective Consciousness: Reassessing Durkheim's Argument Francesco Callegaro 6. Religious Rituals and Logical Thought in Durkheim: The Level of Existence of Social Things Bruno Karsenti 7. The Dreyfus Affair and Durkheim's Experience of Anti-Semitism Pierre Birnbaum 8. Durkheim and the Philosophy of His Time Jean-Louis Fabiani 9. Durkheim's Team: L'Année sociologique Marcel Fournier and Paul Carls 10. Durkheim and Bergson, Durkheimians and Bergsonians Heike Delitz 11. Durkheim, Pragmatism, and Sociology Romain Pudal 12. Émile Durkheim's Germany Wolf Feuerhahn 13. The Modern Individual Willie Watts Miller 14. Durkheim and Economic Sociology Philippe Steiner 15. Reflecting on Durkheim and His Studies on Law through Cancellations of British Citizenship Devyani Prabhat 16. Émile Durkheim and the Sociology of Religion Matthias Koenig 17. Durkheim's Ambivalence towards Art Edward Tiryakian and Josefina Cintron Tiryakian 18. Durkheim and Social Movements Kerstin Jacobsson 19. Durkheim and the Sociology of Human-Animal Relations Robert Seyfert 20. Durkheim and the Sociality of Space Markus Schroer 21. Émile Durkheim and the Modern Family François de Singly 22. Durkheim, Tarde, Latour Bjørn Schiermer Andersen 23. Sociology of the Sacred: The Revitalization of the Durkheim School at the Collège de Sociologie and the Renewal of a Sociology of Sacralization by Hans Joas Stephan Moebius 24. Lévi-Strauss's Critique of Durkheim Jing Xie 25. Ordinary Rituals: Durkheim, Mead, Goffman Frédéric Keck 26. Durkheim and the New Sociology of Morality Steven Lukes

"This new collection of essays regarding the thought and reception of the work of Émile Durkheim is a masterful corrective to one of social science's most important, but also most misunderstood, founding figures. Too often dismissed as a strict positivist and conservative, Durkheim has been forgotten and neglected by many in recent years. This book deserves our attention because it demonstrates (from a variety of vantage points and perspectives) his relevance to our current social theoretical efforts....Highly recommended." -- Choice

Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at Humboldt University Berlin and Visiting Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin in 1979 (G. H. Mead: A Contemporary Re-examination of His Thought, MIT Press, 1985, 1997). Among his numerous prizes are the Max Planck Research Award in 2015; the Prix Paul Ricoeur in 2017 and the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award of the German Sociological Association in 2022. His last book in English is The Power of the Sacred. An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment, Oxford UP, 2021. Andreas Pettenkofer studied sociology at the Free University of Berlin, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the University of Bielefeld, and received his PhD at the Max Weber Centre, University of Erfurt. After positions at the University of Göttingen and at the Fernuniversität in Hagen, he is now a fellow at the Max Weber Centre, University of Erfurt, where he heads the group "The Local Politicization of Global Norms".

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