Deaths of Authors and Lives of Texts

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construct, for concrete reality that is both transsocietal and divided by unequal races, classes, sexes, and nations. Further more, on close reading, Durkheim believes in sacred nature of the personality-not the individual-the social, hence sacred, socially determined ideal half of spirit/body dichotomy through which he orizes individuals. In fact, individuating aspect of individuals-the body-is that which Durkheim opposes to collective, social aspect of individuals-the collective consciousness of within individ ual, which constitutes sacred, entirely so cial, personality. Durkheim's Ghosts Why does Charles Lemert look to Durkheim today? I believe it is because he finds that Durkheim's work is part of an intellectual revolution at turn of twentieth centu in modem division of labor-thereby form ing interdependent basis of modern social solidarity. However, he characterizes his work as study of society, and he believes that, be cause society contains entire universe within it, sociology is necessarily universal. Contemporary Sociology 37, 3 I Durkheim would disagree with this characteri zation of his work, and with undertaking of any work, called renaissance-general, un specialized. He insists that it is moral duty of all citizens to become specialized elements This content downloaded from 157.55.39.217 on Mon, 18 Apr 2016 08:40:17 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms