Collective consciousness as a “collection of phenomena”. the program of phenomenology in the “objectivist Durkheim”
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2011.3.10057Keywords:
social things, social consciousness, social phenomena, epoche, carthesianismAbstract
My aim is to disclose a programmatic convergence between Durkheim and Husserl in three different levels, thematic, methodological and ontological. In order to do so, I will carry out a phenomenological reading of The Rules of the Sociological Method in search of some core ideas of The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology and of The Origin of Geometry. I will also show, in accordance with Cathesian Meditations, that the sociological method is, in as much as phenomenology, a carthesian way. Then I will explain that Durkheim’s methodological and ontological stances present the same circularity as Husserl’s in Marion’s analysis. Then I will put on view that the way in which Durkheim faces it situates him in the phenomenology of the natural attitude undertaken by Schutz. Finally I will illustrate how Durkheim, just as Galileo according to Crisis…, is at a time a disclosing and a concealing genius and that’s the reason why he lets go the best of his social phenomenology, holding to a thoughtless anthropomorphism and to metaphysical dogmas which he didn’t get to put into brackets.Downloads
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2011-11-18
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Belvedere, C. (2011). Collective consciousness as a “collection of phenomena”. the program of phenomenology in the “objectivist Durkheim”. Civitas: Journal of Social Sciences, 11(3), 419–439. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2011.3.10057
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