Volume 21, Number 3 · March 7, 1974
Durkheim's Call to Order
By Alasdair MacIntyre
Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work
by Steven Lukes
Harper & Row, 676 pp., $17.50
One of the more curious features of sociology is the number of times that it has been founded. In the late nineteenth century both Max Weber in Germany and Emile Durkheim in France behaved as founding fathers of the new science, without taking any interest whatever in each other's work. In 1914 when the barbarism of bourgeois civilization erupted in World War I, each identified his own nation as being enlisted in the cause of civilization and his nation's opponents as being enlisted in that of barbarism.
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