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On Suicide (Penguin Classics) (1st Edition) by Emile Durkheim, Richard (Editor/Introduction) Sennett, Robin Buss (Translator), Alexander Riley (Editor), Contributor-Richard Sennett, Mile Durkheim Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-14-044967-1 / 0140449671 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044967-9 / 9780140449679 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 t |