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Catalogue
2009-2010
(a selection of publications)
Éditions de l’École
des hautes études
en sciences sociales
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Forthcoming titles for 2009-2010 Défis contemporains de la parenté
The Contemporary Challenges of Kinship
Enric Porqueres i Gené (Ed.)
The friction between socially-constructed and resulting-from-procreation
kinship triggers intense debates. Is there universal knowledge on the matter
Le sexe politique • Political Sex of reproductive biology that could be shared by all human cultures? Should
Genre et sexualité au miroir transatlantique one assume that the reference to reproduction is necessarily central in the
Genre and sexuality in the transatlantic mirror organisation of kinship systems? These examples of questions that are still
Éric Fassin raised today make up the backdrop of this collective work. Coming from
Is sex political? No was the answer in France in the early 1990s, various traditions and disciplines, its authors confront their positions. The
against the politicisation of sexual issues that was supposed to define plurality of approaches makes this a major book in the study of kinship.
America. Yes is the answer in the years 2000. It is even said that equa- October 2009 • Collection “Cas de figure”; No 7 • 336 pages
lity of sexes and sexualities pertain to the French national identity. It ISBN 978-2-7132-2221-4 • Price : 17 e
is this reversal which is analysed here. Starting from the comparison
between the USA and France, this book deals with abortion, violence
towards women, heterosexual love and homosexual marriage, as well as
the links between genre and sexuality. A collection of articles put into
perspective, this book provides a rich synthesis of Eric Fassin’s works.
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October 2009 • Collection “Cas de figure”; No 10 • 316 pages
ISBN 978-2-7132-2223-8 • Price : 15 e La tentation du corps
The Body Studied in French Social Sciences
Dominique Memmi, Dominique Guillo
& Olivier Martin (Eds.)
Long left out or undervalued by social sciences, the human body has gra-
De l’imagination historique • On Historical Imagination dually been conferred new importance, not only as an object of study but
Nikolay Koposov. Preface by François Hartog also as an instrument of analysis. Works of capital importance, in such
No project for the future that would clarify the past… No new concepts disciplines as law, history, anthropology and sociology, as well as genre
that would shed light on history… Nowadays, it is said that historians studies bear witness to this renewal. This book aims to grasp the nature
feel that they are facing a void. Yet the analysis of their thought shows of this reorientation. Is it the sign of a return of biologism? Is there a
that the words they use also bear emptiness in themselves. Based on a unitary way that would be characteristic of French social sciences?
study of the logical structures of historical concepts, this book investi- October 2009 • Collection “Cas de figure”; No 9 • 320 pages
gates the conflict between signification and semantic vacuum. It reveals ISBN 978-2-7132-2224-5 • Price : 15 e
a field of research that has hardly been explored, that of the mentality
of historians.
October 2009 • Collection “Cas de figure”; No 8 • 320 pages
ISBN 978-2-7132-2220-7 • Price : 16 eForthcoming titles for 2009-2010 Forthcoming titles for 2009-2010
La part d’ombre de l’État de droit Des liens et des transferts entre les générations
The Dark Side of the State of Law Of Links and Transfers between Generations
La question carcérale en France et en République fédérale André Masson
d’Allemagne depuis 1968.
The prison issue in France and the Federal Republic What are the main motivations behind the transmission of heritage within families? What rights and
of Germany since 1968 duties vis-à-vis our successors should be conferred to the State? This book devoted to the economy of
Grégory Salle intergenerational links presents an enlightening overall view on the subject. It successively follows three
mainstays: State, family and interactions between family and State. This discussion sheds light on a cru-
Prisons represent places of exception, denounced in the now-conven-
cial issue regarding the future perspectives of our welfare state and the reform paths to be taken. Should
tional expression “a lawless zone”. Yet it seems that there is a large
the policies to be implemented attempt to reinforce the link between generations in one way or another?
consensus on the virtues of the State of Law as a model for prison
Or on the contrary, should they favour other “liberal” or “social democratic” principles, considering the
management. Grégory Salles analyses this link between the prison and
possible changes in the post-war generation pact?
the representation of the State of Law, linking up political history and
December 2009 • Collection “En temps & lieux”
penal policies. The compared study about the evolution of confine-
ment in France and Germany provides a new, important contribution
to contemporary studies on prisons.
September 2009 • Collection “En temps & lieux”; N° 10 • 344 pages
ISBN 978-2-7132-2226-9 • Price : 25 e
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Compter et classer • Counting and Classifying Devenir métropolitain
Histoire des recensements américains Becoming a French Mainlander
A history of American censuses Politique d’intégration et parcours de rapatriés d’Algérie
Paul Schor en métropole (1954-2005)
Integration policies and the life itineraries of French colonists repatriated from Algeria to main-
In retracing the evolutions of the categories used in American census, land France (1954-2005)
this book raises the question of the political and social role and issues Yann Scioldo-Zürcher
of demographic statistics. Far from being simple mirrors of a society
or an instrument of the government, censuses represent a place of From the Independence War until today, this book retraces the stages of the transformation of the French
complex negotiations between the State, the experts and the people. colonials born in Algeria into French Mainlanders. The author has succeeded in the challenge of inter-
The history of categories refers to that of a country whose identity is preting the State policy towards repatriates as the first policy for the immediate integration of migrants,
intimately linked to a continuous interrogation on the composition with all the limits that go along with it. There is another remarkable point in this as-yet-unpublished
of its people. study: besides the large number of public archives examined, it features both the voices of the repatriated
November 2009 • Collection “En temps & lieux”; N° 8 (with a corpus of over 200 letters and personal diaries) and the representations of Algeria’s French colo-
ISBN 978-2-7132-2173-6 nists (with a corpus of television shows). Lastly, Yann Sioldo-Zürcher places this history of the repatriates
within the more general history of migrants, comparing them with other groups and thus enabling us to
put things into perspective and to assess the singular destiny of the pieds-noirs from Algeria.
December 2009 • Collection “En temps & lieux”Forthcoming titles for 2009-2010 Forthcoming titles for 2009-2010
Koumen • Koumen La cumulativité du savoir en sciences sociales
Texte initiatique des pasteurs peuls Cumulativeness of Knowledge in Social Sciences
The initiatory tale of Fulani shepherds Bernard Walliser (ed.)
Amadou Hampate Ba et Germaine Dieterlen
The theme of cumulativeness concerns the very core of scientific activity and evolution. Indeed,
Koumen is the Fulani shepherds’ initiation text. Due to very strict ritual knowledge does not present itself as a pile of assertions, but is made up of propositions linked to one
conditions, it was never written, let alone recorded, until Hampate Ba another and forming various conceptual objects. It thus develops under the influence of continuous
and Germaine Dieterlen published it in 1961. There is no other version external contributions and diverse internal restructurings as well as the revision of models. The
of this text, which has been out of print for years. Koumen relates the collection “Enquêtes” is known for contributing to the reflection on discipline divisions and episte-
initation of the first ‘solatgi’, Silé Sadio or Soulé – short for Souleyman, mological convergences. This new publication covering all the fields of human sciences clarifies the
i.e. Salomon. It presents initiation as the progressive teachings on the cross-disciplinary aspects to be found in the cumulativeness of various expertises.
structure of elements, space and time, whose essence must pervade the December 2009 • Collection “Enquête”; N° 8 • ISBN 978-2-7132-2232-0
postulant. It is also a succession of trials symbolising the battle to be
undertaken with oneself, with the help of God and the Koumen, one’s
auxiliary shepherd, in order to advance in knowledge.
December 2009 • Collection “Cahiers de l’homme” • ISBN 978-2-7132- Peines de guerre, la justice pénale internationale et l’ex-Yougoslavie
2231-3 • 10 € War Penalties - International Penal Justice and Ex-Yugoslavia
Elisabeth Delpla & Magali Bessone
2010 • Collection “En temps & lieux”
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Les douleurs de l’industrie
L’engagement ethnographique
The Pains and Ailments of Industry
L’hygiénisme industriel en France, 1860-1914
The Ethnographic Commitment
Hygiene in French industries, 1860-1914 Daniel Cefaï (ed.)
Caroline Moriceau 2010 • Collection “En temps & lieux”
This book examines how people have come to look differently at ailing workers’ bodies. Indeed, with
the start of industrial hygiene around 1860, the links between the physical state of health of workers Histoire d’une drogue en sursis. L’opium à Canton, 1906-1936
and the conditions in which they worked began to be considered objectively. This work is edifying for The Story of a Drug on Borrowed Time: Opium in Canton, 1906 - 1936
understanding how industrial hygiene came about, defining this discipline through its social manifes- Xavier Paules
tations and its contribution in terms of scientific knowledge, and lastly assessing its practical efficiency. 2010 • Collection “En temps & lieux”
It encompasses science history, the social construction of a discipline and the history of industrialisation.
Starting with the study of the atypical health policy at the Baccarat crystal glass factory, Caroline Mori-
ceau has also grasped something about the material realities inside their workshops, the relationships
between workmen and their environment, their craft and their bodies, while at the same time giving
their employer’s viewpoint.
November 2009 • Collection “En temps & lieux” • ISBN 978-2-7132-2229-0New publications 2009
New Publications 2009 Chroniques d’une ascension sociale
Chronicles of Upward Social Mobility
Exercice de la parenté chez de grands officiers (xvie-xviie siècles)
The exercise of kinship among some high officers (16th-17th centuries)
Claire Chatelain
Reliques modernes Claire Chatelain retraces the itinerary of each of the actors in a rich
Modern relics and as yet unseen saga, analysing its collective mechanism. How does
Philippe Boutry, Pierre Antoine Fabre & Dominique Julia (eds.) a family group build its economic power, its specific identity and its
Starting in the time of Reformation, the cult of holy coherence from one generation to the next?
bodies became a source of conflicts. An object of vio- For the sake of contributing to the social history of elites in the
lence and massive destruction as well as a theological Modern Times, the author has unveiled a varied ensemble of archives,
affirmation on the part of the Catholic Church faced which hold unexpected data. These documents give access to a true
with the heretics, it was also a way to fill up with crisis of the family institution, with individuals gradually assuming
sacredness for all the believers who came to ask for help greater importance.
in adversity. Studied in the long term, all the facets of January 2009 • Collection “En temps & lieux”; No 3 • 436 pages
ISBN 978-2-7132-2164-4 • Price : 49,50 s
relics are examined here – from their pertaining to a
place to being used as political emblems; from being
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objects of people’s veneration to belonging to princely 13
collections; from confessional and philosophical contro-
Dynamiques de l’erreur • The Dynamics of errors
versy to pilgrimage booklets.
Christiane Chauviré, Albert Ogien & Louis Quéré (eds.)
September 2009 • Collection “En temps & lieux” • Vol. 1. 428 pages + 8 pages • ISBN 978-2-7132-2174-3
Price : 28,50 s / Vol. 2. 468 pages +8 pages • ISBN 978-2-7132-2188-0 • Price : 29,50 s Unavoidable, human error often connotes negative value, yet it has a
positive potential. In envisaging error in the multiple contexts where
it happens, this book puts forward a new approach, counter to that of
cognitive psychology. Varied case studies examine the use of error in
Traditions et temporalités des images science, solving practical problems in everyday life, establishing proof
Traditions and Temporalities of Images in court, medical diagnostics and political decisions. The issue here is
Giovanni Careri, François Lissarague, to put the thesis of its positive value to the test.
Jean-Claude Schmitt & Carlo Severi (eds.) February 2009 • Collection “Raisons pratiques”; N° 19 • 368 pages
Images are the reflection of their time, of the life of their creator. They ISBN 978-2-7132-2169-9 • Price : 26 €
bear witness to technical and iconic traditions, place aged old civili-
sations into the stage, and evoke the past, present and future. Behind
these traces of time, what do images tell us? Is our own memory
what is at stake? With these questions for a starting point, historians,
anthropologists and art historians have analysed more than twenty-
five centuries of artistic production in Europe, Africa, Asia and Ame-
rica. Their rich and varied approach enables the reader to (re)discover
art masterpieces as well as unknown jewels. 120 colour plates magnify
these original analyses.
March 2009 • Collection “L’histoire et ses representations”; N° 7 •
256 pages. + 104 colour plates • ISBN 978-2-7132-2163-7 • Price : 45 €New publications 2009 New publications 2009
À l’épreuve du sang contaminé Le courage de la vérité • The courage of Truth
The test of the contaminated blood Le gouvernement de soi et des autres II
Pour une sociologie des affaires médicales The governance of self and others II
For a sociology of medical affairs Cours au Collège de France, 1983-1984
Emmanuelle Fillion Lecture at the Collège de France, 1983-1984
Michel Foucault
Victims in revolt, public indignation, doctors and politicians in the
dock etc: the contaminated-blood scandal was an affair of state. Never- In February and March 1984, Foucault gave his last lectures at the Col-
theless, the transfusional epidemic of HIV was long confined to the lège de France. He was to die in June of the same year. This last lecture
micro-world of haemophilia. In order to understand how this tragedy carries on and intensifies the analyses led the year before. The issue was
turned into a major political crisis, E. Fillion goes back to the expe- to question the function of “truth telling” in politics. By returning to
riences of its players: the patients, their families, their association and the school of cynicism of the Ancients, Foucault aims to consider the
their doctors. Neither plea nor accusation, this approach puts forward scandalous staging of truth in an offbeat, different, provocative life. In
an exhaustive sociological analysis of this scandal and sheds light on this way he puts forward, for the first time, a genealogy of the accursed
the transformations of the medical world. artist, the activist revolutionary and the philosophical hero.
March 2009 • Collection “En temps & lieux”; N° 4 • 328 pages February 2009 • Collection “Hautes Études” (Gallimard/Le Seuil)
ISBN 978-2-7132-2171-2 • Price : 20 a 356 pages • ISBN 978-2-02-065870-6 • Price: 27 a
Foreign rights: Le Seuil
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Le gouvernement de soi et des autres La roue de la fortune • The Wheel of Fortune
The Governance of Self and Others Le destin d’une famille d’usuriers lombards dans les Pays-Bas
Cours au Collège de France (1982-1983) à l’aube des Temps modernes
Lecture at the Collège de France (1982-1983) The destiny of a Lombard usurer family in the Netherlands
Michel Foucault at the dawn of Modern Times
Myriam Greilsammer
This lecture given in 1983 is especially precious, as the studies it
contains were never published while Foucault was alive. The question Who was Lowys Porquin and why did he decide to bequeath his Book of
Memoirs and Spiritual Testament to his children —a school textbook long
he raises here is: what self-governance must be laid down both as the
adopted by both the Catholics and Reformed? Myriam Greilsammer inves-
basis and the limit of the governance of others? tigates the aim of this singular autobiography —through what was left
In this lecture, Foucault places himself at the heart of a philosophical heri- unsaid and what was embellished, it pertained to the social and religious
tage, and problematizes the status of his own word. Indeed, he goes back integration strategies of the Lombard moneylenders. Fiction and reality, the
to the bedrock of the forgotten ethics of Athenian democracy, starting hold of sources over historians, and God and money are at the root of this
up research on the notion of parrêsia (speaking the truth, outspokenness). essay in micro-history.
He extends it to the way the philosophical discourse in the West builds April 2009 • Coll. “En temps & lieux”; N° 6 • 432 pages
a fundamental part of its identity on the will for the governance of self ISBN 978-2-7132-2170-5 • Price : 30 e
and others, which was already at the heart of Kant’s questioning about
Enlightenment as Foucault had understood it.
2008 • Collection “Hautes Études” (Gallimard/Le Seuil) • 400 pages • ISBN 978-2-02-065869-0
Price: 27 e • Foreign rights: Le SeuilNew publications 2009 New publications 2009
La fin de la pauvreté ? • The End of Poverty? Écologie sociale de l’oreille
Les experts sociaux en guerre contre la pauvreté aux États-Unis A Social Ecology of Hearing
(1945-1974) Enquêtes sur l’expérience musicale
Social experts at war against poverty in the U.S.A. (1945-1974) Inquiries on the musical experience
Romain Huret Anthony Pecqueux & Olivier Roueff (Eds.)
Is it possible to eliminate poverty permanently? Romain Huret leads an This book represents a renewal in the present debates on the study of
inquiry on the War on Poverty programme developed by the adminis- artistic practices. It is no longer the study of a musical style or genre
trations of the Democrat presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, that defines research, but the outlook, the sociological perspective.
and innovatively extended by the Republican president Richard Nixon. Eight musical experiences are studied here. These include the repre-
Stemming from a questioning about the place of poverty in our contem- sentation of rap in the media and public space, sociabilities in rave
porary societies, this work sheds new light on the present crisis of the parties and the practice of jazz lovers. Led by the best specialists in the
social system, raising the question of the role of experts and the delicate each domain, these inquiries on the field fill a gap in as much as there
relationships between the intelligentsia and politicians. Taking up the have been very few empirical works in this domain.
case of civil servants, the author proposes an original social history of the June 2009 • Collection “En temps & lieux” ; N° 9 • 286 pages
American state and its institutions. ISBN 978-2-7132-2219-1 • Price : 20 z
November 2008 • Collection “En temps & lieux”; No 1 • 240 pages
ISBN 978-2-7132-2162-0 • Price: 21 e
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Le travail créateur • Creative Work Ce que le genre fait aux personnes
Une sociologie de l’art • A sociology of art What Gender Does to People
Pierre-Michel Menger Irène Thery & Pascale Bonnemere (Eds.)
Is the artist who takes the path of a risky craft, a “rational madman”? Gender studies have reached a crucial watershed, to the point that
What do people call talent, even genius? From the intimacy of the they are renewing the conception of sexual difference in the West.
artist’s activity to the public organisation of artistic production, art Up until now, gender was thought to be an attribute of an indivi-
is ruled by uncertainty: uncertainty in creation, in the reception of dual person. It is now defined as a modality of relationships. As yet
a work, in the tools of evaluation, in the selection etc. A sociologist ignored in our societies, this approach stemming from anthropology
specialised in culture and in work, Pierre-Michel Menger presents an is drastically changing the very issue of what is an individual. Asses-
original, highly documented depiction of creative work. sing this change, sociologists, anthropologists, historians and philoso-
May 2009 • Collection “Hautes Études” (Gallimard/Le Seuil) • 672 pages phers suggest that we go back to what we mean when we speak about
ISBN 978-02-098682-3 • Price: 30 e an individual, a society, an action, a passion or a specifically human
Foreign rights: Le Seuil relationship.
December 2008 • Collection “Enquête”; N° 7 • 320 pages + index
ISBN 978-2-7132-2153-8 • Price : 26 zNew publications 2009 New publications 2009
Fictions du pouvoir chinois Divins remèdes. Médecine et religion en Asie du Sud
Fictions of the Chinese Power Divine Remedies. Medicine and Religion in South Asia
Révolution, normes et espace public à l’époque du modernisme Ines G. Županov & Caterina Guenzi (eds.)
Revolution, norms and public space at the time of modernism
This book aims to fill a gap by studying the connections between
Sebastian Veg
medicine and religion on the Indian sub-continent. Although there
What are the links between fiction and power? With the 1911 revo- have been many studies on medicine and on religion over the last two
lution and the May 4th movement, the early 20th century in China decades, the effort in analysing and interpreting has rarely concerned
is a privileged period to study the links between literary modernity their interaction. With its large number of peoples and its impres-
and democratic claims. sive corpus of erudite traditions, India especially lends itself to such
Confronting Chinese (Lu Xun, Lao She) and European works (Sega- consideration.
len, Kafka, Brecht) which question the legitimacy of new political January 2009 • Collection “Purushartha”; No 27 • 360 pages
forms, Sebastian Veg stresses the intertwining between fiction and the ISBN 978-2-7132-2167-5 • Price : 30 e
authorities and goes beyond the gap between “committed” literature
and “pure” literature. This study also questions the place and status of
fiction in the social field.
November 2008 • Collection “En temps & lieux”; No 2
384 pages + 4 pages of plate
ISBN 978-2-7132-2165-1 • Price : 25 e
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Le travail à-côté • Work on the side
Une ethnographie des perceptions • An ethnology of perceptions
Florence Weber
What do workmen do in their free time? This enquiry, which has
become a classic for the ethnology of Western societies, was led in
Montbard (Côte d’Or, France) in the 1980s. For this new edition,
Florence Weber returns to the keystone of her work: socialised per-
ception. The ethnographic eye, the perceptions of human activity
and the economic perception —the three facets of socialised percep-
tion— refer to social interactions, the place of men in manufacturing
processes and the very functioning of societies. In addition, F. Weber
contributes to genre studies by highlighting the invisibility of male
domestic activities.
March 2009 • Collection “En temps & lieux”; N° 5. New, revised and
augmented edition [1st publ. 1989] • 240 pages
ISBN 978-2-7132-2172-9 • Price : 23 qMethodology of the Social Sciences
Methodology of the Social Qu’est ce qu’une discipline ? • What is a Discipline?
Sciences Jean Boutier, Jean-Claude Passeron & Jacques Revel (eds.)
What is the meaning of the boundaries marked by history to deli-
mit scientific “disciplines”? What use is there in classifying them
within a unified system? The history of sciences has always com-
Anthropologie et psychanalyse plicated the horizontal divisions between disciplines, while the
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis latter have been increasing vertically. Today, this irenic picture of
Regards croisés • Reciprocical views an epistemological space embedded in a “system of disciplines” has
Patrice Bidou, Jacques Galinier & Bernard Juillerat (eds.) been drastically shaken.
At the start of psychoanalitic anthropology there is the consideration 2006 • Collection “Enquête”; No 5 • 260 pages
of the fantasmatic reality in the reciprocal constructions of the subject ISBN 978-2-7132-2103-3 • Price: 24 e
and cultural works. The physical and psychic bodies of both sexes thus
make up the passage way between the universality of human desire
and the singularity of civilisations. The extremely close connection
between the individual who desires and the establishment of social
rules is the leitmotiv of this book.
Specialists in both disciplines, the authors propose an exchange of
viewpoints between anthropology and psychoanalysis.
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2005 • Collection “Cahiers de L’Homme”; No 37 • 228 pages
ISBN 2-7132-2066-1 • Price: 24 e La liberté au prisme des capacités
Freedom in the Prism of Capabilities
Amartya Sen au-delà du libéralisme
Beyond liberalism: Amartya Sen
Jean de Munck & Bénédicte Zimmermann (eds.)
Pratiques de la description Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, Amartya Sen is the leading foun-
The Practices of Description ding father of the “capabilities approach”, which criticizes utilita-
Giorgio Blundo & Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan (eds.) rism and questions the role of public politics. His works shake up
After the post-modern wave of the eighties, there has been a return the established acceptation of economic freedom. Today’s intellec-
to description. Taking into account the daily reality of descriptive tual and political situation lends itself especially to such discussion.
practices in history, anthropology and sociology, this book deals with The authors examine the concepts and principles of this innovative
the concrete forms used for describing space and time from one dis- approach. The book also features the translation of a text on human
cipline to the next. It tackles the descriptive procedures specific to rights by Amartya Sen.
social sciences, such as the “descriptions of others” that social science 2008 • Collection “Raisons pratiques”; No 18 • 334 pages
ISBN 978-2-7132-2154-5 • Price: 27 e
researchers use as their source or research topic.
2003 • Collection “Enquête”; No 3 • 224 pages + index
ISBN 2-7132-1788-1 • Price: 22 eMethodology of the Social Sciences Methodology of the Social Sciences
L’argumentation • Argumentation Les usages politiques du passé
Preuve et persuasion • Proof and persuasion The Political Utilisation of the Past
Michel de Fornel & Jean-Claude Passeron (eds.) François Hartog & Jacques Revel (eds.)
The issue of the controversies linked to the foundations of the social That the past lends itself to being used politically is attested to
sciences was to distinguish arguments coming under the logic by the entire history of historiography. Then why is the concern
of proof or under the rhetoric of persuasion. The development of about the manipulation of the past always more insistent –as can be
the language sciences, along with the redefinition of rhetoric now seen with the recent quarrel amongst German historians about the
provide other instruments with which to measure the weight meaning of Nazism and the current one on Communism? Based on
of enunciation in everyday and scientific languages. The studies a number of current topics, this book is a reflection on our historio-
brought together here aim to identify the characteristic operations graphic present and the numerous ways it is used politically.
in administering proof in social sciences. 2001 • Collection “Enquête”; No 1 • 206 pages + index
2002 • Collection “Enquête”; No 2 • 192 pages + index ISBN 2-7132-1405-X • Price: 20 e
ISBN 2-7132-1423-8 • Price: 18 e
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Naturalisme versus constructivisme? Évidence de l’histoire • The Obviousness of History
Naturalism vs Constructivism? Ce que voient les historiens • What historians see
Michel de Fornel and Cyril Lemieux (eds.) François Hartog
A topical challenge for social sciences lies in considering phenomena History seems to speak for itself. Yet to talk about “the obviousness of
–whether social constructions or natural realities– in a non-binary history” immediately raises doubt as to whether it is so evident after all.
fashion. This book offers several possible ways, among them an unpu- Since Herodotus had recourse to “historia” (as a procedure to replace vision
blished re-reading of Durkheim. that was bestowed on the inspired poet by his muse), history has become a
It aims to shed light on the different manners in which a growing matter of eyes and sight and historians have been working on the division
number of researchers are trying to transcend the opposition between visible and invisible. Obviousness is the main thread of this book
between constructivism and naturalism, and integrate into one what that questions the status of historical accounts, the writing of history and
is unknown of the other. To mention just a few: the social-empiri- the figure of the historian, both amongst the Ancients and the Moderns,
cist approach, “pragmatic” sociology, cultural naturalism, as well as spanning the Ancient Mediterranean to late 20th century France.
P. Descola’s approach. “… It seems to me that a historian is someone for whom history always
Likewise, the re-reading of Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious remains surprising and never becomes evident (taken for granted or official).”
Life can give social sciences a model to take up the challenge that natu- 2005 • Collection “Cas de figure”; No 5 • 285 pages + index
ralism and evolutionism lead them to confront in life sciences. ISBN 2-7132-2069-6 • Price: 16 e
2007 • Collection “Enquête”; No 6 • 334 pages + index, abstracts
ISBN 978-2-7132-2152-1 • Price: 27 eMethodology of the Social Sciences Methodology of the Social Sciences
Penser par cas • Thinking by Cases Voir l’histoire • Seeing History
Jean-Claude Passeron & Jacques Revel (eds.) Théories anciennes du récit historique
Old theories on historical narrations
What is thinking by cases? How does one reason and to what extent Adriana Zangara
can one generalize when starting from the description of singular
configurations? This long-neglected subject has now found its perti- Likely to be interpreted in many contradictory ways, the ostensive
nence. The reader is invited to build up his own collection of proto- function attributed to historical narratives became the subject of a
types or ideal types to “form his personal conviction through his own debate starting in the Greek and Roman period. The issue was no less
work” as Freud put it. There is no operating shortcut or mechanical than the status of history. Unravelling the strings of this old debate
equivalence in the progression from one particular case to another. comes down to renewing with a questioning that has never ceased to
2005 • Collection “Enquête”; No 4 • 292 pages be topical: what do we see when people make us “see” history, and
ISBN 2-7132-2024-6 • Price: 27 e what does the historian do, the one who makes us “see” it?
2007 • Collection “Contextes” • 320 pages + index
ISBN EHESS 978-2-7132-2109-9 • ISBN Vrin 2-7116-1845-3
Price: 36 e • Foreign Rights: Vrin
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Le Modèle et l’enquête • The Model and the Inquiry
Les usages du principe de rationalité dans les sciences sociales –
The use of the rationality principle in social sciences.
Jean-Claude Passeron & Louis-André Gérard-Varet (eds)
Le modèle et l´enquête – This book aims to shed light on the conjunctures
of research, those of the foundations as well as current redefinitions,
and to recount the working practices of social studies. It also attests
to an intellectual collective project. It demonstrates the comings and
goings between disciplines, procedures and subjects. It shows how
knowledge progresses through sharing and confrontation, enabling
us to better understand the present-day situation. Are such a science
of “models” as economy and such a science of “surveys” as sociology
facing the same limits regarding their application to social actions and
the recent formulations introducing notions of “limited” or “procedu-
ral” rationality? Does the same operative definition of “rationality”
come into play in the analysis of an equilibrium or a circumstance, a
context or interdependency between variables, a synchrony or a dia-
chrony, a political decision or an economic anticipation, a calculation of means or a prognostication of
ends, the theory of games or a historical typology?
1995 • Collection “Recherches d’histoire et de sciences sociales”; N° 63 • 582 pages
ISBN: 978-2-7132-1019-8 • Price: 41€The History of Thought
The History of Thought Inscrire et effacer • Writing and Erasing
Culture écrite et littérature (xie-xviiie siècle)
Written culture and literature (11th-18th century)
Roger Chartier
The fear of erasing obsessed European societies during the first moder-
Machiavel, conflit et liberté nity, and writings had the mission to conjure this obsessive fear of loss.
Machiavelli, Conflict and Freedom Paradoxically, the excess of writing was perceived as a risk as serious as
Serge Audier its opposite.
Was Machiavelli the malevolent initiator of a cynical, “machiavelic” It is the multiple relationships between writing and erasing, between
vision of power? Was he the precursor of political science or a major lasting traces and ephemeral writings that this books aims to elucidate,
figure of modern republicanism? This book offers a different reading of studying the way they have been put in literature in some works. How
the Florentine, centred on the thematics of political and social conflicts. do these works make what is written the very matter of writing?
The main thread of this study is what would be called the French It is therefore a question of crossing the history of written culture and
Machiavellian movement, led by Aron, Merleau-Ponty and Lefort. The the sociology of texts, as well as approaching the relationships between
challenge is to consider the relationship between republicanism and libe- literary creation and the materialities of writing.
ralism in a different way. This is done by exploring the –still topical– 2005 • Collection “Hautes Études” (Gallimard/Le Seuil) • 209 pages + index
ISBN 2-02-081580-X • Price: 22 e • Foreign rights: Le Seuil
resources of a political thought that confers on conflicts a key role in the
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2005 • Collection “Contextes” • 311 pages + bibliography, index
ISBN EHESS 2-7132-2075-0 / ISBN Vrin 2-7116-1748-3
Le gouvernement des corps • The Governance of Bodies
Price: 25 e • Foreign rights: Vrin Didier Fassin & Dominique Memmi (eds.)
How do state intervention and social regulation regarding the body bring
about new forms of biopolitics? The governance of bodies is now emerging
on a variety of scenes: education and repression for the use of tobacco, dis-
Le principe d’obligation • The Principle of Obligation tribution of medicine for impotency, transfer of treatments from hospital
Sur une aporie de la modernité politique to family, regulation of pregnancy termination and death management.
On an aporia of political modernity
Also included are: controlling prostitution, laying down domestic norms,
Bruno Bernardi
administrating the daily life of prisoners, normalizing the conduct of poor
Is the crisis in social links the consequence of a weakening of the feeling people and migrants etc. How do our societies take up such issues as the
of obligation? This essay shows how the question of duty is the same from body, life and living? How do they define their limits and their legitimate
Bodin to Rousseau: how can one compel a free will? use? How do they build their representations and practices?
The natural-right school –which human rights doctrines have inherited 2004 • Collection “Cas de figure”; No 3 • 276 pages • ISBN 2-7132-1822-5
from– bases political obligation on moral obligation. Rousseau reverses this Price: 16 e
presupposition: the bond of duty is not given but has to be constructed,
and its basis is political. This is what causes its precariousness. Indeed, how
can the exercise of political freedom be made the source of the social link?
2007 • Collection “Contextes” • 334 pages
ISBN EHESS 978-2-7132-2151-4 / ISBN Vrin 978-2-7116-1924-5
Price: 35 e • Foreign rights: VrinThe History of Thought • Lectures of Michel Foucault The History of Thought • Lectures of Michel Foucault
Naissance de la biopolitique • The Birth of Biopolitics Le pouvoir psychiatrique • Psychiatric Power
Cours au Collège de France (1978-1979) Cours au Collège de France (1973-1974)
Lecture at the Collège de France (1978-1979) Lecture at the Collège de France (1973-1974)
Michel Foucault Michel Foucault
Published by M. Senellart under the general editorship of F. Ewald Published by J. Lagrange under the general editorship
& A. Fontana of F. Ewald & A. Fontana
After showing how political economy in the 18th century marked the L’histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (A History of Insanity in the Age of
birth of a new governmental reason, Michel Foucault set about ana- Reason) was an archeological inquiry on the divisions between the
lyzing the forms of this liberal “gouvernmentality”. It is a matter of sane and insane in our societies. It stopped with the medicalization of
describing the political rationality inside which the specific problems madness in the early 19th century. The lecture that Michel Foucault
of life and population have been put forward. “Studying liberalism as devoted to psychiatric power in late 1973 and early 1974 is an extension
the general framework of biopolitics.” of this undertaking. The question here is drawing up the genealogy of
2004 • Collection “Hautes Études” (Gallimard/Le Seuil) the power-knowledge of psychiatry, which stems from the disciplinary
384 pages + index • ISBN 2-02-032401-6 • Price: 25 e mechanisms of the regime imposed on madness.
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Sécurité, territoire, population L’herméneutique du sujet
Security, Territory, Population The Hermeneutics of the Subject
Cours au Collège de France (1977-1978) Cours au Collège de France (1981-1982)
Lecture at the Collège de France (1977-1978) Lecture at the Collège de France (1981-1982)
Michel Foucault Michel Foucault
Published by M. Senellart under the general editorship of F. Ewald Published by F. Gros under the general editorship
& A. Fontana of F. Ewald & A. Fontana
Taking as a starting point the problem of bio-power, introduced in In this lecture, Michel Foucault presents an inquiry on the notion of
Il faut défendre la société (Society Must be Defended), Foucault moves the the “care of the self” which, much more than the famous “know thy-
horizon of his lecture. It is no longer about the history of the mecha- self”, has organized the practices of philosophy. The issue is to show
nisms of security –temporarily moving into the background– but what techniques, what procedures and what historical aims come into
about the genealogy of the modern State, through the systems imple- play for the self-formation of an ethical subject within a determined
mented in the West to ensure the “government of men”. relation to the self. Describing the ancient mode of subjectivisation,
2004 • Collection “Hautes Études” (Gallimard/Le Seuil) Michel Foucault also shows the precariousness of the modern one. By
432 pages + index • ISBN 2-02-030799-5 • Price: 25 e re-reading the Ancients, he allows us to ask ourselves questions about
Foreign rights: Le Seuil our identity as a modern subject. He then shows us the historicity of
what could seem most ahistorical: the manner in which, as subjects,
we relate to ourselves.
2001 • Collection “Hautes Études” (Gallimard/Le Seuil)
545 pages + index • ISBN 2-02-030800-2 • Price: 24,39 e
Foreign rights: Le SeuilThe History of Thought • Lectures of Michel Foucault The History of Thought
Les anormaux • Abnormal La preuve par la Chine • Proof by China
Cours au Collège de France (1974-1975) La « Description » de J.-B. Du Halde, jésuite, 1735
Lecture at the Collège de France (1974-1975) The «Description» by J-B Du Halde, jesuit, 1735
Michel Foucault Isabelle Landry-Deron
Published by V. Marchetti and A. Salomoni under the general editorship
of F. Ewald & A. Fontana In his catalogue of writers from the century of Louis the XIVth, under
the headword “Jean-Baptiste Du Halde”, Voltaire wrote: “Although
Starting from multiple sources –theologial, legal and medical– Michel he never left Paris and did not speak Chinese, he has provided the
Foucault endeavours to isolate and define the group of “abnormal” best and largest description of the Chinese empire that we have
individuals. Going back to the cases of crimes committed by so-called throughout the world.” This study focuses on the image of China in
“monsters”, which brought about criminal psychiatry, this lecture pro- Europe in 1735, the date of publication of “A Geographical, Histori-
vides us with a study of forensic examinations. Foucault also presents cal, Chronological, Political and Physical Description of the Chinese
the working plans of unfinished works or abandoned projects, such as Empire and Chinese Tartary”. This book has often been mentioned as
one devoted to confession and spiritual advice in the modern age. a landmark of the Age of Enlightenment. It was the final stage of the
1999 • Collection “Hautes Études” (Gallimard/Le Seuil) • 368 pages + index Chinese Rites Controversy, too long neglected in the history of ideas.
ISBN 2-02-030798-7 • Price: 24,80 e Awarded the “Prix Giles” 2002 by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-
Foreign rights: Le Seuil Lettres • 2002 • Collection “Civilisations et sociétés” • No 110 • 428 pages
Illustrations, glossary, index • ISBN 2-7132-1426-2 • Price: 49 e
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“Il faut défendre la société” • Society Must Be Defended Le cercle méthodologique de Moscou (1954-1989)
Cours au Collège de France (1975-1976) The Moscow Methodology Circle (1954-1989)
Lecture at the Collège de France (1975-1976) Une pensée, une pratique • One thought, one practice
Michel Foucault Svetlana Tabatchnikova
Published by M. Bertani and A. Fontana under the general editorship
of F. Ewald & A. Fontana The Moscow Methodology Circle, founded by Russian academics and
intellectuals, was a unique experience in the Communist regime. This
This book launched the publication of the lectures given by Michel book, the first analysis of this network, sheds light on the “grey zones”
Foucault –who occupied the chair on “The History of Thought Sys- of the Soviet regime, the spaces of semi-freedom that existed in the
tems”– at the Collège de France. The philosopher ponders over the midst of the totalitarian system.
pertinence of the war model to analyse relations of power. He defines
2007 • Collection “Recherches d’histoire et de sciences sociales” • No 110
two forms of power: disciplinary power applied to the body via sur- 332 pages • ISBN 978-2-7132-2113-2 • Price: 25 e
veillance techniques and punitive institutions, and what he now calls
bio-power, exerted on the population, life and the living.
1997 • Collection “Hautes Études” (Gallimard/Le Seuil)
272 pages + index • ISBN 2-02-023169-7 • Price: 21,34 e
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Anthropology Tribus et basses castes • Tribes and Low Castes
Résistance et autonomie dans la société indienne
Resistance and autonomy in indian society
Marine Carrin & Christophe Jaffrelot (eds.)
This book is centered on the groups that have been rejected for decades
Figures de l’humain • The Representations of Humans by traditional sociology. To what extent can one define an autonomous
Les représentations de l’anthropologie • Portrayals in anthropology sphere of action and subaltern thought outside the dominant class’
Francis Affergan, Silvana Borutti, Claude Calame, field of influence? Does this autonomous sphere bring about daily
Ugo Fabietti, Mondher Kilani & Francesco Remotti resistance challenging the hierarchical vision of the caste society?
The end of the 20th century was marked by much critical feedback on 2002 • Collection “Purushartha. Sciences sociales en Asie du Sud”
cultural and social anthropology. The introspective look on the formal No 23 • 376 pages + maps, bibliography, illustrations
and rhetorical procedures of the anthropological representation of other ISBN 2-7132-1787-3 • Price: 34 e
peoples’ cultures has led to the search for new approaches. It has also
resulted in the construction of transverse objects connected with the
foundations of cultural and social anthropology. The anthropopoiesis
outlined here takes up the portrayals of humans: as components of civili-
zation, they cross cultures and contribute information to anthropological
approaches.
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2003 • Collection “Recherches d’histoire et de sciences sociales”; No 98
358 pages + bibliography • ISBN 2-7132-1790-3 • Price: 25 e Rites hindous • Hindu Rites
Transferts et transformations • Transfers and transformations
Gérard Colas & Gilles Tarabout (eds.)
The rite is often emptied of historicity, not only for its participants
but also for many analysts who detect, in rites, archaisms that are not
Musulmans de Chine • Muslims of China longer to be found in other social activities. These studies offer to
Une anthropologie des Hui du Henan give back to Hindu rites their double social and historical dimension,
An anthropology of the Hui in Henan paying particular attention to their circulation and their adjustments
Élisabeth Allès in space, society and time. Rites are envisaged here as objects of imi-
What does it mean, today, to be a Muslim in China (Hui)? How is this tation, borrowings, modifications, reorganization and language strate-
double identity —Muslim and Chinese— expressed in social practices? gies, a prestigious term being sometimes applied to rites that actually
Can one talk of antagonism, assimilation, or syncretism? In analysing differ significantly from what is claimed as a “model”.
the practices of Islam in Henan with finesse and rigour, and especially 2006 • Collection “Purushartha. Sciences sociales en Asie du Sud”; No 25
showing us the place of women in religion through a pioneering study of 504 pages + colour illustrations • ISBN 2-7132-2074-2 • Price: 45 e
female mosques in China, this work sheds a singular light on the debates
on the notions of assimilation and syncretism.
2000 • Collection “Recherches d’histoire et de sciences sociales”; No 89
334 pages + 12 pages of plate • ISBN 2-7132-1350-9 • Price : 31€You can also read
