Preface and acknowledgements 1. Durkheim and the social character of the categories 2. Historical background: Aristotle and Kant 3. The categories in early nineteenth-century French philosophy 4. The later eclectic spiritualism of Paul Janet 5. The early development of Durkheim's thought 6. Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories 7. Prospects for the sociological theory of the categories Notes Bibliography Index.
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