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Emile Durkheim: Ecole Normale
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Durkheim was a brilliant student at the College d'Epinaland was awarded a variety of honors and prizes. His ambitionsthus aroused, he transferred to one of the great French highschools, the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Here heprepared himself for the arduous admission examinations thatwould open the doors to the prestigious Ecole NormaleSuperieure, the traditional training ground for theintellectual elite of France.
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Durkheim was a brilliant student at the College d'Epinal and was awarded a variety of honours and prizes. His ambitions ... aroused, he transferred to one of the great French high schools, the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Here he prepared himself for the arduous admission examinations that would open the doors to the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure, the traditional training ground for the intellectual elite of France.
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All this does not mean that Durkheim was uninfluenced by histhree years at the Ecole Normale. Later on, he spokealmost sentimentally about these years and, if many of hisprofessors irked and annoyed him, there were a few others to whomhe was deeply in debt. Among these were the great historianFustel de Coulanges, author of the Ancient City who becamedirector of the school while Durkheim attended it, and thephilosopher Emile Boutroux. He later dedicated his Latin thesisto the memory of Fustel de Coulanges, and his French thesis, TheDivision of Labor, to Boutroux. What he admired in Fustel deCoulanges and learned from him was the use of critical andrigorous method in historical research. To Boutroux he owed anapproach to the philosophy of science that stressed the basicdiscontinuities between different levels of phenomena andemphasized the novel aspects that emerged as one moved from onelevel of analysis to another.
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