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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wojtek, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am sorry, but I think looking at Durkheim within
the context of a sociology-philosophy dichotomy is rather
simplistic. How can we make sense of Durkheim's social epistemology and
analytical methodology without paying attention to his engagement with the
philosophical discourses in his time? Durkheimian epistemology (which I
found problematic by the way... among the classical patriarchs, Marx's sociology
of knowledge is far more impressive... Marx, though not a professional
sociologist, still remains the sociologist of all sociologists) emerged from his
serious philosophical studies of Kant, Spinoza, the positivists, the
empiricists, among others. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Manjur Karim </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>