1. See my Una teologia per atei, Rome/Bari, Laterza, 1983 [Fr. transl.: Une théologie pour athées, Paris, Méridiens-Klincksieck, 1984, p. 202].

2. Cf. W. Lepenies, Les trois cultures (Fr. transl.), Paris, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1990, p. 60 (emphasis added).

3. Cf. especially my contribution in Gualtiero Harrison (ed.), Culturologia del sacro e del profano, Milan, Feltrinelli, 1965; and Kurt H. Wolff (ed.), Emile Durkheim 1858-1917, Columbus, Ohio University Press, 1960, esp. P. Honigsheim, “The Influence of Durkheim and His School of the Study of Religion”, pp. 233-247.

4. E. Durkheim, Le regole del metodo sociologico, Milan, Comunitá, 1963, p. 202.

5. Ibid., p. 180.

6. Cf. C. Lévi-Strauss, Totémisme aujourd'hui, Paris, PUF, 1985, p. 156.

7. Cf. W. Lepenies, op. cit. Note 2, pp. 80-81.

8. Cf. E. Durkheim, L'éducation morale, Paris, PUF, 1963, p. 52.

9. Cf. E. Durkheim, op. cit. p. 54.

10. Cf. E. Durkheim, op. cit. p. 56.

11. Cf. W. Lepenies, op. cit. p. 96: Lepenies quotes the opinion of P. Lasserre, and he seems to agree with him.

Emile Durkheim: A Moralist Who Does not Believe in Contemporary Morals

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