EMILE DURKHEIM AND THE SCIENCE OF CORPORATISM.

The article examines the corporatist philosophy of Emile Durkheim, one of the most renowned modern advocate of corporatism. According to political scientist Robert Nisbet, Durkheim sought to restore moral authority in France and bring to state the stability which had proven so elusive throughout the nineteenth century. Another critic, Anthony Giddens, asserts the Durkheim did not to want to recapture a bygone era but rather sought to enable France to adapt to the dislocations generated by the rapid growth of a market economy without suppressing the ideals of liberal individualism.