THE SOCIAL WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA - SCHOPENHAUER INFLUENCE UPON DURKHEIM THOUGHT

abstract

• The starting-point for this analysis is a remark made by Andr Lalande, that Durkheim was so enamoured with Schopenhauer's philosophy that his students nicknamed him Schopen. The intellectual context shared by Schopenhauer and Durkheim is explored, especially with regard to the opposition between the id-like will and the mind. Schopenhauer's influence upon Durkheim's contemporaries is examined briefly. Then, this new context for apprehending Durkheim's thought is applied to selected problems in Durkheimian scholarship, problems that have to do with the dualism of human nature, perception, the unconscious and the unity of knowledge relative to the object-subject debate. The implications for sociological theory are also discussed.

authors

• Mestrovic, Stjepan

published proceedings

• SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW

author list (cited authors)

• MESTROVIC, S. G.

citation count

• 13

complete list of authors

• MESTROVIC, SG

publication date

• November 1988

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

keywords

• 44 Human Society

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1988.tb00704.x

start page

• 674

end page

• 705

volume

• 36

issue

• 4

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%2Fj.1467-954x.1988.tb00704.x