A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books

Cyril Lemieux, Laurent Berger, Marielle Macé, Gildas Salmon, Cécile Vidal, Adrian Morfee

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Année: 2023
• ISBN de l'eBook:
  9780262374392
• Sujet: Social Sciences
• Sujet: Anthropology

What are the social sciences? What unifies them? This essay collection seeks to answer these and other important questions as it considers how the field has developed over the years, from post–World War II to the present day throughout the world. Edited by Cyril Lemieux, Laurent Berger, Marielle Macé, Gildas Salmon, and Cécile Vidal, A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books brings together a diverse range of researchers in the social sciences to present short essays on 101 books—both renowned and lesser known—that have shaped the field, from Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) to Michel Aglietta's Money: 5000 Years of Debt and Power (2016).

While there have been surveys and intellectual histories of particular disciplines within the social sciences (history, anthropology, sociology), until now there has been no intellectual history of the social sciences as a unified whole. Far from presenting a fixed and frozen canon, A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books offers instead a moving, multiform landscape with no settled questions, only an ongoing series of new perspectives and challenges to previously established grounding.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction: Revisiting the Social Science Library
• 1947 Dialectic of Enlightenment: Adorno and Horkheimer Diagnose the Self-Destruction of the Enlightenment
• 1948 Situations II: Sartre Holds Literature to Account
• 1949 The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II: Braudel’s Interlocking Durations
• 1949 The Elementary Structures of Kinship: Lévi-Strauss Founds Kinship on Matrimonial Exchange
• 1949 Male and Female: Mead Denaturalizes the Difference between the Sexes
• 1949 Social Theory and Social Structure: Merton Suggests a Code of Conduct for Sociology
• 1950 Sociologie et anthropologie: Mauss and the Consecration of the Social Unconscious
• 1951 The Origins of Totalitarianism: Arendt and the Radical Novelty of Totalitarianism
• 1952 Knowledge of Life: Canguilhem Redefines the Principle of Life
• 1953 Combats pour l’histoire: Febvre Announces History’s Future
• 1954 Political Systems of Highland Burma: Leach Explodes the Stability of Social Structure
• 1955 Meaning in the Visual Arts: Panofsky Replaces Beauty with Meaning
• 1955 The Sociology of Black Africa: Balandier Sociologizes Africa
• 1956 The Power Elite: Mills and the Confiscation of Power
• 1957 The Uses of Literacy: Hoggart Finally Casts Light on Working-Class Cultures
• 1957 Mythologies: Barthes Deploys Semiology to Demystify Myth
• 1957 The King’s Two Bodies: Kantorowicz and the Mystique of Politics
• 1958 The Affluent Society: Galbraith and the Heralded End of Poverty
• 1959 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Goffman Turns Daily Life into Theater
• 1960 Centuries of Childhood: Ariès Rediscovers the Feeling of Childhood
• 1961 History of Madness: Foucault Reendows Madness with Its Destabilizing Power
• 1962 How to Do Things with Words: Austin and Language as Action
• 1962 The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Habermas and the Decadence of “Publicness”
• 1962 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Kuhn Conceives of Science as Work Communities
• 1963 The Making of the English Working Class: Thompson Restores the Experience of the Working Class
• 1964 Gesture and Speech: Leroi-Gourhan Links Up Gesture and Speech
• 1965 Myth and Thought among the Greeks: Vernant and the Experience of the Greeks
• 1965 Reading Capital: Althusser and the Silences of Capital
• 1966 Purity and Danger: Douglas Ushers Contest into the Heart of the Symbolic Order
• 1966 Problems in General Linguistics: Benveniste Moves beyond Structuralism
• 1966 The Social Construction of Reality: Berger and Luckmann Lay the Bases of Constructivism
• 1967 Of Grammatology: Derrida Invents a Writing Preceding Signs
• 1967 Studies in Ethnomethodology: Garfinkel and the Phenomenology of the Social
• 1968 Mythe et épopée: Dumézil Views Myth as Expressing Social Organization
• 1969 The Post-Industrial Society: Touraine and the Onset of a New Type of Society
• 1969 The Court Society: Elias Defines Court Society as the Crucible for the Civilizing Process
• 1969 Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: Barth Desubstantializes the Idea of Ethnic Groups
• 1970 Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Hirschman Theorizes the Expression of Discontent
• 1971 The Vision of the Vanquished: Wachtel Switches Perspective on the Spanish Conquest
• 1972 Language in the Inner City: Labov Defends a Unified Theory of Language and Its Social Uses
• 1972 Stone Age Economics: Sahlins Overthrows the Productivist Hypothesis
• 1973 The Legend of Bouvines: Duby Does Battle with Events-Based History
• 1973 The Interpretation of Cultures: Geertz Turns Cultures into Texts to Be Interpreted
• 1974 The Modern World-System: Wallerstein and the Planetary Expansion of Modern Capitalism
• 1975 Maidens, Meals, and Money: Meillassoux and the Alimentary Structures of Kinship
• 1976 The Cheese and the Worms: Ginzburg Launches Microhistory
• 1976 Bread and Circuses: Veyne and the Logic of Good Deeds
• 1977 Deadly Words: Favret-Saada Casts a Spell on Positivism
• 1977 The Domestication of the Savage Mind: Goody Explores the Intellectual Technologies Connected to Writing
• 1978 Interpreting the French Revolution: Furet Consigns the Revolution to the Past
• 1978 Orientalism: Said Views the Orient in the Mirror of the West
• 1979 Futures Past: Koselleck Sets Out His Theory of Historical Time
• 1979 Distinction: Bourdieu and the Social Production of Taste
• 1980 The Practice of Everyday Life: De Certeau and the Creativity of Ordinary Practice
• 1981 Portrait of the King: Marin and the Power of Representation
• 1981 L’exercice de la parenté: Héritier Unifies the Field of Kinship
• 1982 Slavery and Social Death: Patterson Defines Slavery as Social Death
• 1982 Art Worlds: Becker Turns Art into a Job Like Any Other
• 1982 The Foul and the Fragrant: Corbin Endows Our Senses with a History
• 1982 The Making of Great Men: Godelier and the Multiple Forms of Domination
• 1983 Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India: Guha Rehabilitates the Political Consciousness of Subalterns
• 1983 Essays on Individualism: Dumont Places Western Exception in Perspective
• 1983 Imagined Communities: Anderson Unveils Nations’ Fictional Underpinnings
• 1984 The Pasteurization of France: Latour Makes Room for the Nonhuman
• 1985 Time and Narrative: Ricœur Refigures Time
• 1986 Risk Society: Beck Announces Science’s Self-Disenchantment
• 1987 The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France: Chartier and the Cultural History of the Social Realm
• 1987 Family Fortunes: Davidoff and Hall Analyze the Co-construction of Gender and Class
• 1988 The Gender of the Gift: Strathern Turns Gender into a Capacity for Action
• 1989 Primate Visions: Haraway Finds in Primatology Tools for Radical Protest
• 1990 Gender Trouble: Butler Sows Trouble in Gender
• 1990 Le carrefour javanais: Lombard Reshuffles the Cards of Global History
• 1991 The Middle Ground: Richard White and Intercultural Accommodations
• 1992 Identity and Control: Harrison White and Emerging Social Formations
• 1993 The Politics of Large Numbers: Desrosières Investigates the Ontology of Statistical Knowledge
• 1994 The Age of Extremes: Hobsbawm Recounts the End of Nineteenth-Century Bourgeois Society
• 1995 From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers: Castel and the Erosion of the Wage System
• 1996 Saint Louis: Le Goff Meets Saint Louis
• 1997 The Divided City: Loraux Shows Forgetting Is Central to Politics
• 1998 Art and Agency: Gell Redefines Art Independently of Aesthetics
• 1999 The New Spirit of Capitalism: Boltanski and Chiapello Readdress the Enigma of Capitalism
• 2000 The Great Divergence: Pomeranz Explains Why China “Lagged” behind the West
• 2001 Acting in an Uncertain World: Callon, Lascoumes, and Barthe Rethink Democracy
• 2002 The Surviving Image: Didi-Huberman Makes Time the Fundamental Dimension of Images
• 2003 The Price of Monotheism: Assmann and the Violence of Monotheism
• 2003 Law and Revolution: Berman and the Revolutions of Western Law
• 2003 Regimes of Historicity: Hartog and Experience of the Present
• 2004 La servitude volontaire: Testart, the Genesis of Inequalities and the Emergence of the State
• 2005 Explorations in Connected History: Subrahmanyam Connects the Euro-Asian Worlds
• 2005 Beyond Nature and Culture: Descola Steers Nature into the Social Sciences
• 2006 Charonne, 8 février 1962: Dewerpe Autopsies State Violence
• 2007 The Years of Extermination: Friedländer Puts the Holocaust at the Heart of Scholarship on Nazism
• 2008 Violence: Collins Makes Violence an Effect of Situation
• 2009 The Art of Not Being Governed: Scott and the Anthropological Outcome of an Anarchist History
• 2010 How Chiefs Became Kings: Kirch Endows Polynesia with Its Own Archaic State
• 2011 Debt: Graeber Wishes to End the Violence of Debt
• 2012 Through the Eye of a Needle: Brown Returns to the Roots of the Christian Problem of Wealth
• 2013 Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Piketty Decrypts Shifts in Economic Inequalities over the Centuries
• 2014 The Use of Bodies: Agamben and Life as Use
• 2015 The Mushroom at the End of the World: Tsing Tracks Life in the Ruins of Capitalism
• 2016 Money: Aglietta Unveils the Contradictory Nature of Money
• List of Books Covered
• List of Contributors