Abstract Roberto Frega’s Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy reformulates question democracy posed by our current historic conjuncture using resources a variety pragmatic thinkers. He brings into contemporary conversation regarding democracy’s fortunes both classical somewhat neglected figures in tradition to deal with questions power, ontology, politics. In particular, Frega takes social...

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) is considered one of the "fathers" of sociology because of his effort to establish sociology as a discipline distinct from philosophy and psychology. This effort is evident in the two main themes that permeate Durkheim's work: the priority of the social over the individual and the idea that society can be studied scientifically. Durkheim's concept of social facts, in ...

The subject of religious experience has been marginalised in the social sciences. Although authors such as James (1903) have suggested that religious experience is pre-cultural and pre-cognitive, this paper argues against the perennialist position, suggesting instead that religious experience and its narration are both socially constructed. The ideological role of religious experience is discus...