Publication of Books
The Durkheim Press
The Press came into being in 1996 with the intention of publishing books by Durkheim and members of the Année Sociologique group. It is a limited company owned exclusively by Willie Watts Miller and Bill Pickering and is totally and legally independent of the Centre and therefore of ISCA. In practice, however, there is a close relation between the Press and the Centre as the owners of the Press are also members of the Centre. The Centre, through its conferences and study-days, can feed the Press with material for publication. Since 2003 the Durkheim Press has gone into partnership with Berghahn Books of Oxford and New York (see below) which now publishes books of the Centre, as well as the Journal, Durkheimian Studies (see below). The imprint is Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books.
In 1997, however, when the Durkheim Press started publishing, the first book to appear was a scholarly edition of Durkheim's Latin thesis on Montesquieu, along with a parallel English translation of the Latin, something never attempted before. The entire production was the work of Watts Miller.
In 1999 two books were published: Henri Hubert, Essay on Time, translated by R. Parkin and J. Redding with an introduction by F.-A. Isambert. The other was Durkheim and Foucault: Perspectives on education and punishment edited by Mark Cladis, of Brown University, U.S.A.
In conjunction with Routledge
The first book to be published by a commercial firm in the name of the Centre was Debating Durkheim which appeared in 1994. The editors were W.S.F. Pickering and H. Martins, who used papers given at seminars and conferences in previous years. The appendix contained material on Durkheim and his work for Jewish refugees during the First World War.
In the late-1990s more books appeared, published in conjunction with Routledge, which was later taken over by Taylor and Francis. These also were mainly based on papers given at conferences held in Oxford and orgnanised by the Centre. Thus, February 1998 saw the publication of On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life, edited by N.J. Allen, W.S.F. Pickering and W. Watts Miller. The 15 chapters were based on papers given at the conference held in the summer of 1995 on that subject. In 1998 Durkheim and Modern Education, edited by G. Walford and W.S.F. Pickering, was published. It consisted of papers presented at a conference held in 1996. The book has recently been translated into Japanese. In 2000 two books appeared, Durkheim's Suicide. A Century of Research and Debate, edited by W.S.F. Pickering and G. Walford from a conference held in 1997, and Durkheim and Representations, edited by W.S.F. Pickering, for which there was no conference. At the request of Routledge a four volume work was prepared by the Centre, with W.S.F. Pickering as the General Editor. The title was Emile Durkheim. Critical Assessments of Leading Sociologists, Third Series. The book consisted of a selection of articles and chapters of books, published in the main, since 1980. It was published in 2001.
In Conjunction with Berghahn Books
Edited by Wendy James and N.J. Allen, both members of the Centre, was a book published by Berghahn Books entitled Marcel Mauss. A Centenary Tribute. It was published in 1998 and consisted of papers given at a conference financed by the Centre in 1996.
After it was decided that the Durkheim Press should publish books in conjunction with Berghahn Books of Oxford and New York, the first was published in 2002, Durkheim Today, edited by W.S.F. Pickering. It emerged from the Critical Assessments just mentioned. A book entirely in French was that edited by S. Baciocchi and J. Mergy entitled Emile Durkheim. L'Evaluation en comité. It was published in 2003. A book that had long been in preparation was published in the same year and was an English translation of the first part of Marcel Mauss's doctoral thesis. It was edited by W.S.F. Pickering with the title Marcel Mauss. On Prayer. Mauss's Manuel d'Ethnographie was published in 2007, translated by Dominique Lussier. It was edited and introduced by N. J. Allen. W.S.F. Pickering and Massimo Rosati were editors of a book Suffering and Evil. The Durkheimian Legacy published in 2008. A book is in preparation on the Durkheims and art.
