THE SOCIOLOGICAL UNCONSCIOUS

Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Pierre Bourdieu in the Mirror of Philosophy

Authors

  • Gustavo Ruiz da Silva Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
  • Mariana Regis Slerca Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
  • Geoffroy de Lagasnerie École Des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29327/2318183.16.1-5

Keywords:

Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu, SOCIOLOGICAL UNCONSCIOUS

Abstract

We cannot simply observe that Emile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Pierre Bourdieu all received philosophical training and subsequently asserted, in surprisingly similar terms, that escaping from philosophy or breaking away from philosophical modes of thought was a necessary condition for any research in the human and social sciences, without considering whether there might be a direct relationship between the sociological ethos and a particular attitude towards philosophy. The "rupture" with philosophy is never complete: the sociologists' conception of sociology is, on the contrary, heavily influenced by the negative image they have of philosophy, which they always invoke as something to be avoided or a specter that must be exorcised. The sociological perception of philosophy thus constitutes a system of oppositions, a set of likes and dislikes deeply ingrained in the minds of practitioners in the human and social sciences, and which, so to speak, form the very foundation of the discipline and its definition of its identity. By reconstructing it, this article proposes a sociological analysis of the genesis, structure, and function of the sociological unconscious.

Author Biographies

  • Gustavo Ruiz da Silva, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

    Mestre em Filosofia e bacharel em Ciências Sociais pela PUC-SP. Graduado em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo. 

  • Mariana Regis Slerca, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

    Graduada em Ciências Sociais pela PUC-SP. 

  • Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, École Des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

    Doutor em Sociologia pela École Des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).

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Published

20-12-2023

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2023)

Section

Ética e Filosofia Política Moderna

How to Cite

DE LAGASNERIE, Geoffroy. THE SOCIOLOGICAL UNCONSCIOUS: Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Pierre Bourdieu in the Mirror of Philosophy. Intuitio, Brasil, v. 16, n. 1, p. 1–10, 2023. DOI: 10.29327/2318183.16.1-5. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uffs.edu.br/index.php/intuitio/article/view/13621. Acesso em: 15 dec. 2025.