On suicide / Émile Durkheim ; translated by Robin Buss ; with an introduction by Richard Sennett and notes by Alexander Riley.

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"Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Suicide. English Penguin classics.
Main Author:	Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	French
Language and/or Writing System:	Translated from French.
Published:	London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
Series:	Penguin classics.
Subjects:	Suicide. Suicide > Sociological aspects. Socioeconomic Factors. Risk Factors. Suicide > psychology.
Physical Description:	xxvii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Format:	Book

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