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 Visions of the Social: Society as a Political Project in France, 1750-1950

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xxxii)   (266K)
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    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction
  • The Collective Will: From The Political To The Social (1-44)   (329K)
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    • “Bearing The People’s Person”: Hobbes On Unity Through Representation
    • “A Moral And Collective Body Of Many Members”: Rousseau’s Unitary State
    • “A Unique Whole Composed Of Integral Parts”: National Unity During The French Revolution
    • “Politics Is To Be Wrought By Social Means”: Burke And De Maistre On The Pre-Eminence Of The Social
    • The Natural And The Social: The Notion Of Social Causality
    • “Determined By Its Character And Past”: Taine’s Traditionalist Arguments
    • A Sociology For The Republic
    • Two Languages, Hybridised: Esmein On National Sovereignty
  • Nations And Their Adversaries As A Theme Of Social Thought (45-80)   (278K)
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    • National Singularity And The Community Of Nations: Montesquieu, Encyclopédie, Mme De Staël
    • Politics And National Characters: Rousseau And De Maistre
    • Increasingly Distinct Nations In A Social Age: Michelet
    • “A Spiritual Principle”: The Nation According To Renan
    • A Racial Theory Of National Characters: Gustave Le Bon
    • Societies And Nations As Totalities: Emile Durkheim
    • Social Philosophy And The Figure Of The Enemy
  • Severing The Link To Nature: The Rise Of The Culture Concept In International Perspective (81-118)   (287K)
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    • “National Character”: Varieties Of Understanding
    • “A Continuous Fermentation”: The Social Ontology Of Gabriel Tarde
    • “No Such Thing As A Collective Personality”: Max Weber’s Nominalist Sociology
    • Exchange And Flux: Cultural Forms According To Franz Boas
    • Society And “Conscience Collective”: Durkheim On Society And Morality
    • An Object For The Human Sciences: The Rise Of The Culture Concept
  • “In Us, But Not Of Us”. The Location Of Society According To Emile Durkheim (119-144)   (202K)
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    • Durkheim’s Fundamental Question: The Location Of Society
    • The Question Of The Material Substratum
    • Individual And Collective Representations
    • Collective Consciousness And The Externality Of Social Facts
    • Religion, Collective Ideation, And “Homo Duplex”
  • The National And The Transnational: Marcel Mauss (145-174)   (227K)
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    • Before Nations: From Hordes To Empires
    • The Nation As An “Integrated Society”Of Politically Conscious Citizens
    • The Political Definition Of A Social Form
    • Excursus On Philological Problems
    • “Everything Can Be Shared Between Societies”: A Sociology Of International Relations
    • The Question Of A Human Civilisation
    • “An Entity With A Thousand Dimensions”: Society, Language, And The Category Of Relation
  • The Language And Dialects Of The Social (175-192)   (156K)
  • Bibliography (193-210)   (166K)
  • Index Of Subjects (211-214)   (54K)
  • Index Of Names (215-216)   (35K)