Open AccessDurkheim, the Action Française and the Question of Nationalism
Author(s) -
Sue Stedman-Jones
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
durkheimian studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1752-2307
pISSN - 1362-024X
DOI - 10.3167/ds.2021.250102
Subject(s) - nationalism , positivism , internationalism (politics) , politics , action (physics) , political action , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics
This article concerns Émile Durkheim’s critique of the Action Française as expressed in his seminal articles of 1898, which was an important moment in the Dreyfus Affair, where Durkheim’s active engagement serves to challenge a still widespread view of him as a latter day traditionalist and positivist, He developed epistemological and political arguments against this proto-fascist movement, which have implications for his accounts of nationalism and internationalism.