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Émile Durkheim: Soziologie - Ethnologie - Philosophie
by Peter, Lothar, Lukes, Steven, Seyfert, Robert, Fischer, Joachim, Keck, Frédéric, Fournier, Marcel, Désveaux, Emmanuel, Beck, Stefan, Bogusz, Tanja, Delitz, Heike, Baciocchi, Stéphane, Fabiani, Jean-Louis, Karsenti, Bruno, Keim, Wiebke, Moebius, Stephan, Prabhat, Devyani, Rawls, Anne W., Scheffer, Thomas, Schillmeier, Michael, Jones, Susan Stedman, Terrier, Jean
Émile Durkheim zählt zu den Klassikern der Soziologie. Der Band greift erstmals unbekannte Rezeptionslinien Durkheims auf und zeigt ihn so in seiner Komplexität und Aktualität: als Vorreiter einer transdisziplinären Sozialwissenschaft, als scharfsinnigen Theoretiker, als Denker …
Émile Durkheim: Soziologie - Ethnologie - Philosophie
by Peter, Lothar, Lukes, Steven, Seyfert, Robert, Fischer, Joachim, Keck, Frédéric, Fournier, Marcel, Désveaux, Emmanuel, Beck, Stefan, Delitz, Heike, Baciocchi, Stéphane, Fabiani, Jean-Louis, Karsenti, Bruno, Keim, Wiebke, Moebius, Stephan, Prabhat, Devyani, Rawls, Anne W., Scheffer, Thomas, Schillmeier, Michael, Jones, Susan Stedman, Terrier, Jean
Émile Durkheim zählt zu den Klassikern der Soziologie. Der Band greift erstmals unbekannte Rezeptionslinien Durkheims auf und zeigt ihn so in seiner Komplexität und Aktualität: als Vorreiter einer transdisziplinären Sozialwissenschaft, als scharfsinnigen Theoretiker, als Denker …