Durkheim's Philosophy Lectures
Subtitle: Notes from the Lycée de Sens Course, 18831884
Contributors: Hans Joas (Foreword)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780521630665
Subjects: Philosophy; Social theory; Social sciences; Methodology; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General
First sentence: In the fall of 1882, at the age of 24, Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) was sent by the French Ministry of Public Instruction to live in the provincial town of Sens, a community of 13,000 on the Yonne River, seventy miles southeast of Paris.1