The Anthem Companion to Maurice Halbwachs

Robert Leroux, Jean-Christophe Marcel

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781785276804
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785276828
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This book seeks to place Halbwachs in his historical and intellectual context, showing that his work was sensitive to the events of his time, and that the development of his analysis could be influenced by happenstance. The book does this, not by summarizing or synthesizing his thinking, by the growing literature embodied by many sociologists and historians of social sciences, published for the most part in scientific journals, that focus on the sociological thought that Halbwachs developed in his writings. Then come many studies that emerge from the history of ideas and epistemology: these are entirely devoted to a particular facet of Halbwachs' work, either to place it in its scientific context or to discuss it on the basis of fundamental cognitive issues.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 A Theorist of Collective Memory
• Chapter 2 Halbwachs and the Durkheimian Perspective on History
• Chapter 3 Maurice Halbwachs, Sociologist of Memory: His Reception in Italy and the Development of the Sociology of Memory
• Chapter 4 Population as the Body of Society
• Chapter 5 Urban Morphology and Social Morphology: Marcel Roncayolo and the Work of Maurice Halbwachs
• Chapter 6 Halbwachs’s Leibniz and Halbwachs’s Sociology
• Chapter 7 Halbwachs on Quetelet and the Use of Statistics in Sociology
• Chapter 8 Maurice Halbwachs and the Sociology of Consumption and Social Classes
• Chapter 9 From Criticism of Moral to the Probalistic Test
• Chapter 10 The Age Criterion: Between Sociology and Biology
• Chapter 11 Speculation: Order or Disorder?
• List of Contributors
• Index