Montesquieu and Rousseau: Forerunners of Sociology

by Émile Durkheim

Book Overview

Montesquieu & Rousseau provides, for the first time in English, two essays by Emile Durkheim on his chief eighteenth-century predecessors in the main stream of Western thought. Durkheim recognized... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472751174
• ISBN13: 9780472751174
• Release Date: January 1960
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A "must" reading for anyone interested in Durkheim

I have first read this book several years ago; I have now came back to it and my first impressions have just been reasserted: it is a "must" reading for anyone interested in Durkheim's work. The reason is simple. This is one of Durkheim's early works, published in the same year as the monumental "Division of Labour in Society". However, contrary to the latter monograph, Durkheim here addresses the precursors of nineteenth-century sociology, trying to identify the antecedents of modern social sciences. In a word, if you want to fully understand Durkheim's influences and aims the careful reading of this early book is unavoidable.