Durkheim Through the Lens of Aristotle: Durkheimian, Postmodernist, and Communitarian Responses to the Enlightenment

This text re-examines Durkheim’s science of morality as it is illuminated by Aristotle’s philosophy. The author demonstrates, by examining previously unappreciated aspects of the latter’s moral sociology, that Durkheim’s theory can be compatible with postmodernism.