Emile Durkheim’s Death – Cause and Date

The teacher Emile Durkheim died at the age of 59. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

French sociologist who is widely considered to be the father of modern sociology. He established the first European department of sociology, became France’s first sociology professor, and published a variety of influential works, including 1893’s The Division of Labour in Society and 1897’s Suicide.

He came from a long line of French Jewish rabbis which included his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He had children named Andre and Marie.

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Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

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The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.

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A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

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Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.