Explore the vast range of titles available.

For most of Emile Durkheim's admirers it all ended when he died on Nov 15, 1917. Attempts were made by a decimated Annee sociologique group under the far less affirmative leadership of Durkheim's nephew, Marcel Mauss, to continue along the path set by the great master. The writings of Durkheim published after his death were, to a large extent, retrieved by his nephew from a depository of Durkheim's papers held by his daughter, Marie, who was given their custody. Pickering attempts to get behind the mystery of Durkheim's \"the last things.\"

In Durkheim's time, Gustave Belot was an active, well-known participant in debates on social issues. Nowadays he is a marginal, largely forgotten figure. This essay aims to provide an introduction to his life and work, in which he was in many ways sympathetic with Durkheim's project for a social science but was also highly critical of it. The discussion concentrates on Belot's position on ethics and religion, to bring out where he supported Durkheim and where he attacked him on these two areas of central concern to them both. In particular, it focuses on Durkheim's critique of Belot's Etudes de morale positive, then in turn on Belot's critique of Durkheim's Formes élémentaires.