What is critique? From what standpoints do we critique the world we live in? Where are we when we criticize? This book offers an engaging and innovative reading of Durkheim's sociological project. It intends to show the contemporary relevance of his understanding of sociological critique. It offers a systematic account of his sociology focusing both on its classical philosophical sources and its contemporary usages. This interpretation moves toward a new way to confront the crisis of contemporary critique offering an alternative to the dominant languages existing in sociological theory, political philosophy and critical theory.