The introduction of this work states that there are a "certain number of essential ideas which dominate all our intellectual life...called categories of the understanding." Language is described in it as a "product of collective elaboration" containing terms expressing things "which we have never perceived." It says that festivals and ceremonies are regularly  fulfilling the need of strengthening and reaffirming one's bond to the sacred beings early man depended on. Its last section addresses "T
The introduction of this work states that there are a "certain number of essential ideas which dominate all our intellectual life...called categories of the understanding." Language is described in it as a "product of collective elaboration" containing terms expressing things "which we have never perceived." It says that festivals and ceremonies are regularly  fulfilling the need of strengthening and reaffirming one's bond to the sacred beings early man depended on. Its last section addresses "The Negative Cult and its Functions" and "Piacular Rites." For 10 points, the origins of totemic beliefs and the church are described in what last major work of Emile Durkheim?
The introduction of this work states that there are a "certain number of essential ideas which dominate all our intellectual life...called categories of the understanding.
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life