Durkheim as the Founding Father of Phenomenological Sociology

• Autores: Belvedere, Carlos Daniel
• Año de publicación: 2015
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Durkheim; Husserl; Phenomenological Method; Social Facts; Social Ontology; Social Things
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

In the first place, I discuss the main papers and books on Durkheim published in recent years, where no attention is given to the phenomenological interpretations of his work. Then I expose different phenomenological readings of Durkheim, some of them positive (for instance, Tyriakian’s), some negative (Monnerot and others), some ambivalent (like Schutz’s). Later I find that there is in Durkheim an implicit practice of phenomenology, inspired by Descartes’ Meditations on first philosophy. Consequently, I support Tyriakian’s thesis that there is in Durkheim an implicit phenomenological approach, despite his positivism. Then I wonder whether this tacit approach produces a phenomenological ontology of the social world. I find that it actually does, especially in what regards to social facts considered as things. I argue that Durkheim’s conception of social things is consistent with Husserl’s notion of ideal objectivities. I conclude that Durkheim’s rule of considering social facts as things is part of his phenomenological legacy and that it does not contradict the idea that they also are “states lived”.
Fil: Belvedere, Carlos Daniel. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina