"In this book, Philip Smith examines not only aEmile Durkheim\'s founding texts of sociology, but also reveals how he inspired more than a century of theoretical innovations, identifying the key paths, bridges, and dead ends -- as well as the tensions and resolutions -- in what has been a remarkably complex intellectual history"--. "In this book, Philip Smith examines not only aEmile Durkheim\'s founding texts of sociology, but also reveals how he inspired more than a century of theoretical innovations, identifying the key paths, bridges, and dead ends -- as well as the tensions and resolutions -- in what has been a remarkably complex intellectual history"--