On Suicide by Alexander T. Riley, Émile Durkheim, Robin Buss, Richard Sennett

480 pages first pub 1897 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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