Table of Contents

Preface
1. Durkheim Declassified
2. Durkheim’s French Republicanism
3. The Division of Labour
4. Durkheim’s Method of Scientific Inquiry
5. Suicide
6. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
7. Educating Republican Citizens
8. Socialism and Saint-Simon
9. The Limits to Durkheim’s Republican Sociology
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Kieran Allen is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College Dublin. His books include 1916: Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition (2016) and The Politics of James Connolly (2016).

Brian O'Boyle is a Lecturer in Economics at St Angela College, National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published in the areas of the philosophy of science, the history of economics and the global economy. He is the co-author of Durkheim (Pluto, 2017) and a contributor to Austerity Ireland (Pluto, 2013).

Reviews

'An important contribution to a glaring deficit in the sociological literature'
*Steven Loyal, Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, University College Dublin*