DURKHEIM, ÉMILE.

Le socialisme. Sa definition, ses debuts, la doctrine saint-simonienne.

Paris, Alcan, 1928.

8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Pp. 343/344 with a tear, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. XI, (1), 352, (1) pp. 

First edition of Durkheim’s posthumously published lectures on socialism, delivered at the University of Bordeaux between 1895 and 1896. Here, Durkheim presented his historical study on the origins and early forms of socialist thought with a particular Saint-Simon whom Durkheim regarded as the intellectual precursor of modern sociology.
Although published posthumously, the work is an essential addition Durkheim’s larger sociological system.

Order-nr.: 62770