The essays collected in this volume, except for Hans Joas’s chapter and the

Introduction, are to be published also in Italian, alongside others, in a volume

under the editorship of Massimo Borlandi (Emile Durkheim, Roma: La Nuova

Italia Scientifica). The Publishers and the Editor would like to thank Massimo

Borlandi, who originally commissioned the essays, and La Nuova Italia

Scientifica, via Sardegna 50, 00187 Roma, for making the English language

publication of Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Moralist possible. Joas’s chapter

is based on a section of his book Die Kreativität des Handelns. Making these

texts available to an Anglophone audience has also required the effort of several

translators, including H. Sutcliffe for the chapters by Filloux, Besnard, Müiller,

and Isambert, and for the Durkheim material in the Andrews chapter, and Jeremy

Gaines and Doris Jones for the chapter by Joas. These chapters underwent

additional changes after leaving the translators’ hands. The final manuscript was

typed by Karen Kier and Norma Walker.