Emile Durkheim: His Life And Work: A Historical And Critical Study
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Few figures in the history of social thought have cast as long a shadow as Émile Durkheim, the French sociologist whose pioneering work on suicide, religion, and the division of labour laid the very foundations of modern sociology. Steven Lukes' definitive study chronicles the full arc of Durkheim's life — from his upbringing in a rabbinical family in Épinal to his towering intellectual presence at the Sorbonne — while simultaneously presenting a rigorous critical examination of his entire body of work. With meticulous scholarly precision, Lukes situates Durkheim within the turbulent intellectual and political currents of late 19th- and early 20th-century France, illuminating how the traumas of the Franco-Prussian War and the crises of the Third Republic shaped a mind obsessed with social cohesion and moral order. Lukes argues with compelling authority that Durkheim's genius lay not merely in his empirical methods, but in his radical insistence that society itself is a reality sui generis — a force greater than the sum of its individual members. The work dissects landmark texts such as The Division of Labour in Society, The Rules of Sociological Method, and The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life with an analytical clarity that is both demanding and deeply rewarding. Widely regarded as the most comprehensive intellectual biography of Durkheim available in the English language, this study remains an indispensable touchstone for anyone seeking to understand why, more than a century later, Durkheim's questions about solidarity, anomie, and collective conscience feel more urgent than ever.
Author: Steven Lukes
Format: Paperback
Published: 1975, Peregrine Books
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Tanned edges , minor foxing, rubbed edges.
Few figures in the history of social thought have cast as long a shadow as Émile Durkheim, the French sociologist whose pioneering work on suicide, religion, and the division of labour laid the very foundations of modern sociology. Steven Lukes' definitive study chronicles the full arc of Durkheim's life — from his upbringing in a rabbinical family in Épinal to his towering intellectual presence at the Sorbonne — while simultaneously presenting a rigorous critical examination of his entire body of work. With meticulous scholarly precision, Lukes situates Durkheim within the turbulent intellectual and political currents of late 19th- and early 20th-century France, illuminating how the traumas of the Franco-Prussian War and the crises of the Third Republic shaped a mind obsessed with social cohesion and moral order. Lukes argues with compelling authority that Durkheim's genius lay not merely in his empirical methods, but in his radical insistence that society itself is a reality sui generis — a force greater than the sum of its individual members. The work dissects landmark texts such as The Division of Labour in Society, The Rules of Sociological Method, and The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life with an analytical clarity that is both demanding and deeply rewarding. Widely regarded as the most comprehensive intellectual biography of Durkheim available in the English language, this study remains an indispensable touchstone for anyone seeking to understand why, more than a century later, Durkheim's questions about solidarity, anomie, and collective conscience feel more urgent than ever.