Author Biography

Cyril Lemieux is a sociologist and Senior Research Fellow at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.Laurent Berger is an anthropologist and Lecturer at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.Marielle Mace is a specialist in literature, Senior Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research, and Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.Gildas Salmon is a philosopher and Lecturer at the French National Center for Scientific Research.Cecile Vidal is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Research and Development.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Revisiting the Social Science Library xiii
1947 DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT: ADORNO AND HORKHEIMER DIAGNOSE THE SELF- DESTRUCTION OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 1
1948 SITUATIONS II: SARTRE HOLDS LITERATURE TO ACCOUNT 4
1949 THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN THE AGE OF PHILIP II: BRAUDEL'S INTERLOCKING DURATIONS 7
1949 THE ELEMENTARY STRUCTURES OF KINSHIP: LÉVI- STRAUSS FOUNDS KINSHIP ON MATRIMONIAL EXCHANGE 10
1949 MALE AND FEMALE: MEAD DENATURALIZES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SEXES 13
1949 SOCIAL THEORY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: MERTON SUGGESTS A CODE OF CONDUCT FOR SOCIOLOGY 16
1950 SOCIOLOGIE ET ANTHROPOLOGIE: MAUSS AND THE CONSECRATION OF THE SOCIAL UNCONSCIOUS 19
1951 THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM: ARENDT AND THE RADICAL NOVELTY OF TOTALITARIANISM 23
1952 KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE: CANGUILHEM REDEFINES THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE 26
1953 COMBATS POUR L'HISTOIRE: FEBVRE ANNOUNCES HISTORY'S FUTURE 29
1954 POLITICAL SYSTEMS OF HIGHLAND BURMA: LEACH EXPLODES THE STABILITY OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE 32
1955 MEANING IN THE VISUAL ARTS: PANOFSKY REPLACES BEAUTY WITH MEANING 35
1955 THE SOCIOLOGY OF BLACK AFRICA: BALANDIER SOCIOLOGIZES AFRICA 38
1956 THE POWER ELITE: MILLS AND THE CONFISCATION OF POWER 41
1957 THE USES OF LITERACY: HOGGART FINALLY CASTS LIGHT ON WORKING- CLASS CULTURES 44
1957 MYTHOLOGIES: BARTHES DEPLOYS SEMIOLOGY TO DEMYSTIFY MYTH 47
1957 THE KING'S TWO BODIES: KANTOROWICZ AND THE MYSTIQUE OF POLITICS 50
1958 THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY: GALBRAITH AND THE HERALDED END OF POVERTY 53
1959 THE PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE: GOFFMAN TURNS DAILY LIFE INTO THEATER 56
1960 CENTURIES OF CHILDHOOD: ARIÈS REDISCOVERS THE FEELING OF CHILDHOOD 59
1961 HISTORY OF MADNESS: FOUCAULT REENDOWS MADNESS WITH ITS DESTABILIZING POWER 62
1962 HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS: AUSTIN AND LANGUAGE AS ACTION 65
1962 THE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE: HABERMAS AND THE DECADENCE OF "PUBLICNESS" 68
1962 THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS: KUHN CONCEIVES OF SCIENCE AS WORK COMMUNITIES 71
1963 THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS: THOMPSON RESTORES THE EXPERIENCE OF THE WORKING CLASS 74
1964 GESTURE AND SPEECH: LEROI- GOURHAN LINKS UP GESTURE AND SPEECH 77
1965 MYTH AND THOUGHT AMONG THE GREEKS: VERNANT AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE GREEKS 80
1965 READING CAPITAL: ALTHUSSER AND THE SILENCES OF CAPITAL 83
1966 PURITY AND DANGER: DOUGLAS USHERS CONTEST INTO THE HEART OF THE SYMBOLIC ORDER 86
1966 PROBLEMS IN GENERAL LINGUISTICS: BENVENISTE MOVES BEYOND STRUCTURALISM 89
1966 THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY: BERGER AND LUCKMANN LAY THE BASES OF CONSTRUCTIVISM 92
1967 OF GRAMMATOLOGY: DERRIDA INVENTS A WRITING PRECEDING SIGNS 95
1967 STUDIES IN ETHNOMETHODOLOGY: GARFINKEL AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL 98
1968 MYTHE ET ÉPOPÉE: DUMÉZIL VIEWS MYTH AS EXPRESSING SOCIAL ORGANIZATION 101
1969 THE POST- INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: TOURAINE AND THE ONSET OF A NEW TYPE OF SOCIETY 104
1969 THE COURT SOCIETY: ELIAS DEFINES COURT SOCIETY AS THE CRUCIBLE FOR THE CIVILIZING PROCESS 107
1969 ETHNIC GROUPS AND BOUNDARIES: BARTH DESUBSTANTIALIZES THE IDEA OF ETHNIC GROUPS 110
1970 EXIT, VOICE, AND LOYALTY: HIRSCHMAN THEORIZES THE EXPRESSION OF DISCONTENT 113
1971 THE VISION OF THE VANQUISHED: WACHTEL SWITCHES PERSPECTIVE ON THE SPANISH CONQUEST 116
1972 LANGUAGE IN THE INNER CITY: LABOV DEFENDS A UNIFIED THEORY OF LANGUAGE AND ITS SOCIAL USES 119
1972 STONE AGE ECONOMICS: SAHLINS OVERTHROWS THE PRODUCTIVIST HYPOTHESIS 122
1973 THE LEGEND OF BOUVINES: DUBY DOES BATTLE WITH EVENTS- BASED HISTORY 125
1973 THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES: GEERTZ TURNS CULTURES INTO TEXTS TO BE INTERPRETED 128
1974 THE MODERN WORLD- SYSTEM: WALLERSTEIN AND THE PLANETARY EXPANSION OF MODERN CAPITALISM 131
1975 MAIDENS, MEALS, AND MONEY: MEILLASSOUX AND THE ALIMENTARY STRUCTURES OF KINSHIP 134
1976 THE CHEESE AND THE WORMS: GINZBURG LAUNCHES MICROHISTORY 137
1976 BREAD AND CIRCUSES: VEYNE AND THE LOGIC OF GOOD DEEDS 140
1977 DEADLY WORDS: FAVRET- SAADA CASTS A SPELL ON POSITIVISM 143
1977 THE DOMESTICATION OF THE SAVAGE MIND: GOODY EXPLORES THE INTELLECTUAL TECHNOLOGIES CONNECTED TO WRITING 146
1978 INTERPRETING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: FURET CONSIGNS THE REVOLUTION TO THE PAST 149
1978 ORIENTALISM: SAID VIEWS THE ORIENT IN THE MIRROR OF THE WEST 152
1979 FUTURES PAST: KOSELLECK SETS OUT HIS THEORY OF HISTORICAL TIME 155
1979 DISTINCTION: BOURDIEU AND THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF TASTE 158
1980 THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE: DE CERTEAU AND THE CREATIVITY OF ORDINARY PRACTICE 161
1981 PORTRAIT OF THE KING: MARIN AND THE POWER OF REPRESENTATION 164
1981 L'EXERCICE DE LA PARENTÉ: HÉRITIER UNIFIES THE FIELD OF KINSHIP 167
1982 SLAVERY AND SOCIAL DEATH: PATTERSON DEFINES SLAVERY AS SOCIAL DEATH 170
1982 ART WORLDS: BECKER TURNS ART INTO A JOB LIKE ANY OTHER 173
1982 THE FOUL AND THE FRAGRANT: CORBIN ENDOWS OUR SENSES WITH A HISTORY 176
1982 THE MAKING OF GREAT MEN: GODELIER AND THE MULTIPLE FORMS OF DOMINATION 179
1983 ELEMENTARY ASPECTS OF PEASANT INSURGENCY IN COLONIAL INDIA: GUHA REHABILITATES THE POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF SUBALTERNS 182
1983 ESSAYS ON INDIVIDUALISM: DUMONT PLACES WESTERN EXCEPTION IN PERSPECTIVE 185
1983 IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: ANDERSON UNVEILS NATIONS' FICTIONAL UNDERPINNINGS 188
1984 THE PASTEURIZATION OF FRANCE: LATOUR MAKES ROOM FOR THE NONHUMAN 191
1985 TIME AND NARRATIVE: RICŒUR REFIGURES TIME 194
1986 RISK SOCIETY: BECK ANNOUNCES SCIENCE'S SELFDISENCHANTMENT 197
1987 THE CULTURAL USES OF PRINT IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE: CHARTIER AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE SOCIAL REALM 200
1987 FAMILY FORTUNES: DAVIDOFF AND HALL ANALYZE THE COCONSTRUCTION OF GENDER AND CLASS 203
1988 THE GENDER OF THE GIFT: STRATHERN TURNS GENDER INTO A CAPACITY FOR ACTION 207
1989 PRIMATE VISIONS: HARAWAY FINDS IN PRIMATOLOGY TOOLS FOR RADICAL PROTEST 210
1990 GENDER TROUBLE: BUTLER SOWS TROUBLE IN GENDER 213
1990 LE CARREFOUR JAVANAIS: LOMBARD RESHUFFLES THE CARDS OF GLOBAL HISTORY 216
1991 THE MIDDLE GROUND: RICHARD WHITE AND INTERCULTURAL ACCOMMODATIONS 219
1992 IDENTITY AND CONTROL: HARRISON WHITE AND EMERGING SOCIAL FORMATIONS 222
1993 THE POLITICS OF LARGE NUMBERS: DESROSIÈRES INVESTIGATES THE ONTOLOGY OF STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE 225
1994 THE AGE OF EXTREMES: HOBSBAWM RECOUNTS THE END OF NINETEENTH- CENTURY BOURGEOIS SOCIETY 228
1995 FROM MANUAL WORKERS TO WAGE LABORERS: CASTEL AND THE EROSION OF THE WAGE SYSTEM 231
1996 SAINT LOUIS: LE GOFF MEETS SAINT LOUIS 234
1997 THE DIVIDED CITY: LORAUX SHOWS FORGETTING IS CENTRAL TO POLITICS 237
1998 ART AND AGENCY: GELL REDEFINES ART INDEPENDENTLY OF AESTHETICS 240
1999 THE NEW SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM: BOLTANSKI AND CHIAPELLO READDRESS THE ENIGMA OF CAPITALISM 243
2000 THE GREAT DIVERGENCE: POMERANZ EXPLAINS WHY CHINA "LAGGED" BEHIND THE WEST 246
2001 ACTING IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD: CALLON, LASCOUMES, AND BARTHE RETHINK DEMOCRACY 249
2002 THE SURVIVING IMAGE: DIDI- HUBERMAN MAKES TIME THE FUNDAMENTAL DIMENSION OF IMAGES 252
2003 THE PRICE OF MONOTHEISM: ASSMANN AND THE VIOLENCE OF MONOTHEISM 255
2003 LAW AND REVOLUTION: BERMAN AND THE REVOLUTIONS OF WESTERN LAW 258
2003 REGIMES OF HISTORICITY: HARTOG AND EXPERIENCE OF THE PRESENT 261
2004 LA SERVITUDE VOLONTAIRE: TESTART, THE GENESIS OF INEQUALITIES AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE STATE 264
2005 EXPLORATIONS IN CONNECTED HISTORY: SUBRAHMANYAM CONNECTS THE EURO- ASIAN WORLDS 267
2005 BEYOND NATURE AND CULTURE: DESCOLA STEERS NATURE INTO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 270
2006 CHARONNE, 8 FÉVRIER 1962: DEWERPE AUTOPSIES STATE VIOLENCE 273
2007 THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION: FRIEDLÄNDER PUTS THE HOLOCAUST AT THE HEART OF SCHOLARSHIP ON NAZISM 276
2008 VIOLENCE: COLLINS MAKES VIOLENCE AN EFFECT OF SITUATION 279
2009 THE ART OF NOT BEING GOVERNED: SCOTT AND THE
ANTHROPOLOGICAL OUTCOME OF AN ANARCHIST HISTORY 282
2010 HOW CHIEFS BECAME KINGS: KIRCH ENDOWS POLYNESIA WITH ITS OWN ARCHAIC STATE 285
2011 DEBT: GRAEBER WISHES TO END THE VIOLENCE OF DEBT 288
2012 THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE: BROWN RETURNS TO THE ROOTS OF THE CHRISTIAN PROBLEM OF WEALTH 291
2013 CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY- FIRST CENTURY: PIKETTY DECRYPTS SHIFTS IN ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES OVER THE CENTURIES 294
2014 THE USE OF BODIES: AGAMBEN AND LIFE AS USE 297
2015 THE MUSHROOM AT THE END OF THE WORLD: TSING TRACKS LIFE IN THE RUINS OF CAPITALISM 300
2016 MONEY: AGLIETTA UNVEILS THE CONTRADICTORY NATURE OF MONEY 303
List of Books Covered 307
List of Contributors 311

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