Ambivalent Cartesians: Durkheim, Montesquieu, and Method  

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Alun-Jones, Robert

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: AJS: American Journal of Sociology vol. 100 no. 01 (Jul. 1994), page 1-39.
Topik: Labor; rationalism

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Recent scholarship has emphasized Durkheim's early debt to German social science. Why, then, did Durkheim, write his Latin thesis on Montesquieu, insisting that the latter had "laid down the principles of the new science"? The answer is twofold: first because Montesquieu himself was extremely ambivalent about the French Enlightenment's confident legacy of Cartesian rationalism and second because this made Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws the "perfect forge" within which Durkheim could explore his own ambivalence about the relative merits of French rationalism and German empiricism, and thus shape the tool-the comparative method-he applied in The Division of Labor in Society.

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