Three Faces of God

Donald A. Nielsen is Associate Professor of Sociology at State University of New York College at Oneonta.

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Durkheim's Project: A Claim 2. Durkheim's Intellectual Development and the Durkheimian Theoretical Program Durkheim's Social Philosophy and the Revelation of 1895The Durkheimian Program of Theory and Research3. Durkheim's Concept of Totality and the Philosophical Tradition: Selected Predecessors Durkheim and AristotleDurkheim and BaconDurkheim and SpinozaDurkheim, Kant and Renouvier4. Durkheim's Early Writings and the Dissertation on Montesquieu 5. The First Approach to Totality: Wholes, Parts, and the Transformation of Social Substance in The Division of Labor in Society 6. The Problem of Totality in Durkheim's Transitional Period Social Facts and the Whole/Part Problem in The Rules of Sociological MethodReligion, Totality and Society in Durkheim's Lectures on SocialismTotality and Its Modes in Suicide7. Between Revelation and Realization: The Developing Problem of Totality in Durkheim from 1898 to 1912 The Whole in Durkheim's Lectures on State, Society and Professional EthicsThe Problem of the Whole in Durkheim's Essays I: 1898–1905Durkheim and RousseauThe Problem of the Whole in Durkheim's Lectures on EducationFragments of the Problem of Totality in Durkheim's Essays II: 1905–19128. The Problem of Totality in the Early Durkheim School: The Work of Durkheim, Mauss, Hubert, Hertz, and Bouglé Durkheim and Mauss on Primitive ClassificationMauss on Social Morphology and Eskimo SocietyHubert and Mauss on Mentalities, Magic, and SocietyHubert on the Collective Representation of TimeReason and Society: The Hubert and Mauss Preface to the Melanges d'Histoire des ReligionsRobert Hertz on Religious PolarityBouglé on the Hindu Caste System9. The Second Approach to Totality: Society, Religion, and the Categories in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Nature and SocietyTotality and SocietyThe Categories, Totality, and SocietySociety, Deity, Totality10. The Problem of Totality in Durkheim's Last Writings The Lectures on PragmatismThe Dualism of Human Nature11. Sociological Monism and the Encounter Between Tradition and Modernity Durkheim's Sociological Monism: A Systematic ReconstructionSociological Monism in Civilizational Perspective: Toward the Historical Location of Durkheim's ThoughtBibliography Index

"This is sociological scholarship at its best. This work goes to the head of the class in terms of an original work relating Durkheim to central philosophical questions and traditions." — Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University"The author's command of the Durkheimian texts and of relevant secondary commentary is impressive. He makes his case in a careful and sustained way, building from one text to another, and in the process reveals a unifying philosophical orientation throughout the Durkheimian corpus." — Peter Kivisto, Augustana College