The opposition between phenomenological sociology and Durkheimian sociology is not as absolute as it is often presented. The various ways in which Durkheim's work has been read by phenomenological authors throughout the last fifty years testify to a development toward greater proximity, implying changes in phenomenologists' interpretation of Durkheim as well as in their own starting points.Beginning with an exposition of one of the most antithetical stands towards Durkheim, the article points out different phases of the aforementioned development: (1) A more or less totalopposition;(2) A positive view of thechallengethat phenomenologists can find in Durkheim's work and an attempt toincorporateit into their own viewpoints without really changing the latter; (3) Asimultaneous reinterpretationof Durkheim's sociologism and the phenomenological notions of subjectivity and intentionality, on the common basis of a renewed insight into thecorporealcharacter of human social phenomena.