Values, Knowledge and Solidarity: Neglected Convergences Between Émile Durkheim and Max Scheler

摘要: Within the purview of sociology knowledge Durkheim and Scheler appear among its important inaugurators theorizing social foundations knowledge, seemingly from mutually exclusive perspectives. Scheler’s phenomenology values community is often juxtaposed with Durkheim’s attempt to integrate in reality, represented by configuration organic solidarity. This essay argues that affinity between deserves reexamination. Means employed for pursuing this aim include a reconsideration how mediate but, above all, an show both thinkers converge on their principal normative goal. no other than global solidarity which Durkheim, albeit through different trails, visualize as culmination value-ethics. While pursues goal systematic exposition transition mechanical solidarity, late view ‘the age adjustment’ discloses approach modernity at odds then prevalent Kulturkritik. ideal helps rehabilitate notions sociality, ‘encompassing person’ Durkheimian lenses. The concludes brief appraisal theoretical gains drawn newly lit affinity.