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Theodor Adorno over Emile Durkheim: een kritiek uit de Frankfurter Schule

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Abstract

Theodor Adorno about Emile Durkheim - This article is discussing a critical study of a famous member of the Frankfurter Schule, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) about the sociology of Emile Durkheim (1858- 1917). His study is worth of more attention because the sociology of this frenchman has on the whole received little notice in Germany. This fact gets more weight when we look at the Anglo-Saxon countries, where several authors wrote excellent studies about Durkheim, his sociology, his life and the socio-cultural context of his works. It is however remarkable that in the recent professional studies in America and England the sharp-sighted and critical introduction Adorno wrote on the occasion of the publication of the German translation of Sociologie et philosophic (Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1967) was neglected. Adorno’s essay makes a comparison between Durkheims sociology and the ideas of Hegel, Marx, Freud and Weber. On the other side it throws light on Adorno’s own conception of science and society. In this article we give an outline of some elements of Adorno’s way of thinking and of some ideas of Durkheim. In the next place we are giving a summary of Adorno’s critical understanding of Durkheims sociology. After that we offer a comment upon Adorno’s criticism of Durkheim and finally we shall summarize the merits ascribed by this German sociologist-philosopher to his french antipode.

How to Cite:

Goddijn, H., (1976) “Theodor Adorno over Emile Durkheim: een kritiek uit de Frankfurter Schule”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 21(3), 187–207. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.96031