Émile Durkheim, His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study

London: Allen Lane, 1973. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings indicated). Forest green cloth-wrapped boards in a burgundy and chartreuse pictorial jacket; xi, 676 pages; 23 cm A near fine copy, clean and tight showing only a small dampstain to rear flyleaf and with slightest edgewear to very good (+) jacket, in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 0713903430

Contents: Childhood. The école Normale Supérieure. The new science of sociology. Visit to Germany. Durkheim at Bordeaux. The theory and practice of education. Social solidarity and the division of labour. The family and kinship. Suicide. The method and subject-matter of sociology. The sociology of religion. I. The history of socialism. The sociology of law and politics. The history of sociology. The Année sociologique. The reception of Durkheim's ideas. Socialism, the Dreyfus affair and secular education. Durkheim at the Sorbonne. The history of education in France. Durkheimian sociology: its context and relation to other disciplines. The sociology of morality. The sociology of knowledge. The sociology of religion. II. Pragmatism and sociology. Durkheim and its criticis. Practical concerns. The war.