The Social Origins of Thought

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”.

List of Figures



Introduction: The Durkheim School’s “Category Project”: A Collaborative Experiment Unfolds

Johannes F.M. Schick, Mario Schmidt, and Martin Zillinger



Part I: Silenced Influences and Hidden Texts

Chapter 1. Kantian Categories and the Relativist Turn: A Comparison of Three Routes

Gregory Schrempp



Chapter 2. Hidden Durkheim and Hidden Mauss: An Empirical Rereading of the Hidden Analogical Work Made Necessary by the Creation of a New Science

Nicolas Sembel



Chapter 3. Mana in Context: From Max Müller to Marcel Mauss

Nicolas Meylan



Chapter 4. Durkheim, the Question of the Categories and the Concept of Labor

Susan Stedman Jones



Chapter 5. Inequality Is a Scientific Issue When the Technologies of Practice That Create Social Categories Become Dependent on Justice in Modernity

Anne Warfield Rawls



Chapter 6. Experimenting with Social Matter: Claude Bernard’s Influence on the Durkheim School’s Understanding of Categories

Mario Schmidt



Part II: Lateral Links and Ambivalent Antagonists

Chapter 7. Freedom, Food, and the Total Social Fact. Some Terminological Details of the Category Project in “Le Don” by Marcel Mauss

Erhard Schüttpelz



Chapter 8. Durkheimian Thinking and the Category of Totality

Nick J. Allen



Chapter 9. Durkheimian Creative Effervescence, Bergson and the Ethology of Animal and Human Societies

William Watts Miller



Chapter 10. “It is not my time that is thus arranged…”: Bergson, the ‘Category Project’, and the Structuralist Turn

Heike Delitz



Chapter 11. “Let Us Dare a Little Bit of Metaphysics”: Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert and Louis Weber on Causality, Time, and Technology

Johannes F. M. Schick



Part III: Forgotten Allies and Secret Students

Chapter 12. The Rhythm of Space: Stefan Czarnowski’s Relational Theory of the Sacred

Martin Zillinger



Chapter 13. La Pensée Catégorique: Marcel Granet’s Grand Sinological Project at the Heart of the “L‘Année Sociologique” Tradition

Robert André LaFleur



Chapter 14. Drawing a Line: On Hertz’ Hands

Ulrich van Loyen



Chapter 15. Between Claude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, or: What Is the Meaning of Mauss’ “Total Social Fact”?

Jean-François Bert



Chapter 16. From Durkheim to Halbwachs: Rebuilding the Theory of Collective Representations

Jean-Christoph Marcel



Chapter 17. Durkheim’s Quest: Philosophy beyond the Classroom and the Libraries

Wendy James



Index