The Social Origins of Thought: Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project - Paperback

by Johannes F. M. Schick (Editor), Mario Schmidt (Editor), Martin Zillinger (Editor)

• The volume does not focus on Durkheim or Mauss, but understands the Durkheimian School as a collective enterprise that cannot be dealt with by solely focusing upon individual scholars.
• The "Category Project" is dealt with for the first time systematically as a collective enterprise of the Durkheim School. It is studied from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to provide the full scope of its historical roots and its impact on the development of modern thought.
• A wide array of Durkheimian experts have contributed to the volume, from many different ocuntries.

Author Biography

Johannes F.M. Schick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities (University of Cologne). He was the head of the DFG-research Project "Action, Operation, Gesture: Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology".