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SUICIDE
Suicide
A
STUDY
IN
SOCIOLOGY
By Emile Durkheim
TRANSLATED BY JOHN
A.
SPAULDING AND GEORGE SIMPSON
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE SIMPSON
The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois
Copyright i^^i by The Free Press, A corporation
Printed in the United States of America
by American Book-Knickerbocker Press,
New
York
Designed by Sidney Solomon
First Printing
January i^^i
To Those Who, with Durkheim, Understand
the Life of Reason
As
Itself a
Moral
Arthur
Ginsin in
Commitment, and Especially
D. Gayer in Economics; Sol
burg in Psychiatry; Robert
Sociology; and Arthur E.
to
W.
S.
Lynd
Murphy
Philosophy
CONTENTS
PAGE
Editor's Preface Editor's Introduction
9
13
35
Preface
Introduction
41
Book One: Extra-Social Factors
1
Suicide
and Psychopathic
States
2 3
Suicide and Suicide
Normal
Psychological States
—Race, Heredity
57
82
and Cosmic Factors
104
123
4 Imitation Book Two: Social Causes and Social Types
1
How
to
Determine Social Causes and Social Types
145 152
171
2
3
Egoistic Suicide Egoistic Suicide (^continued)
Altruistic Suicide
4
5
217
241
the Different Types of Suicide
Anomic
Suicide
6
Individual
Forms of
277
Book Three: General Nature of Suicide as a Social ...