A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books

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