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The Anthem Companion to Maurice Halbwachs

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Anthem Companion to Maurice Halbwachs

Contributors:

By (Author) Robert Leroux
Edited by Jean-Christophe Marcel

ISBN:

9781785276804

Publisher:

Anthem Press

Imprint:

Anthem Press

Publication Date:

6th July 2021

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Population and demography
Society and culture: general

Dewey:

301.092

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

192

Dimensions:

Width 153mm, Height 229mm, Spine 26mm

Weight:

454g

Description

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.

Reviews

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Author Bio

Robert Leroux is a professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa.

Jean-Christophe Marcel is a professor of sociology at the University of Burgundy.

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