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When I read it I presumed he was using anomie in the sense of Durkheim, usually taken to mean a kind of listlessness or alienation, from one's work and society.
by michael_nielsen 5y ago
When I read it I presumed he was using anomie in the sense of Durkheim, usually taken to mean a kind of listlessness or alienation, from one's work and society. I really like: "the anomie and the ecstasy are inseparable".
- egypturnash 5y agoYeah, that's the sense I got in that context, too.
- wolverine876 5y agoInteresting, thank you. I know nothing of Durkheim, so I looked in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (a serious source by actual philosophers): https://iep.utm.edu/durkheim/ https://iep.utm.edu/durkheim/ > Durkheim’s term for this “froid moral” in which morality breaks down is anomie, a state of deregulation, in which the traditional rules have lost their authority. That seems like a different meaning. Or am I missing something from the documentary? Is there some sort of anomie in the sense of the IEP quote (which roughly matches the Oxford English Dictionary, which in term cites Durkheim).