Rethinking Durkheim and his tradition

Durkheim and the social character of the categories -- Historical background : Aristotle and Kant -- The categories in early-nineteenth-century French philosophy -- The later eclectic spiritualism of Paul Janet -- The early development of Durkheim's thought -- Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories -- Prospects for the sociological theory of the categories.

This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Durkheim in the context of a French philosophical tradition that had seriously misinterpreted Kant by interpreting his theory of the categories as psychological faculties. Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories is an attempt to provide another way of understanding Kant