ABSTRACT

In this outstanding collection, Mike Gane brings together a selection of key articles on Durkheim and Mauss showing their points of convergence and divergence. Included here are Mauss's 'A sociological assessment of Bolshevism 1924-5' and his 'Letters on Communism, Fascism and Nazism'. This is an engrossing book not only for scholars and students of Durkheim and Mauss but for anyone interested in radical social theory.

part |2 pages

Part 1

chapter 2|29 pages

Two laws of penal evolution

chapter 3|9 pages

Review article by Emile Durkheim (1899)

part |2 pages

Part 2

chapter 4|24 pages

Durkheim: the sacred language

chapter 5|48 pages

Durkheim: woman as outsider