DURKHEIM, EMILE

Additional reading Anthony Giddens, mile Durkheim (1979), is an incisive examination of the subject's life and major works. Harry Alpert, mile Durkheim and His Sociology (1939, reprinted 1961), offers, in its first section, a good account of Durkheim's life. The article by Talcott Parsons in The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 4:31120 (1968), is clear and succinct. A collective volume, mile Durkheim, 18581917: A Collection of Essays with Translations and a Bibliography, ed. by K.H. Wolff (1960; issued in paperback as Essays on Sociology and Philosophy, with Appraisals of Durkheim's Life and Thought, 1964), contains a full chapter on Durkheim's life. The two best volumes in French are those of A.P. la Fontaine, La Philosophie d'mile Durkheim (1926); and of Jean Duvignaud, Durkheim: sa vie, son oeuvre (1965).