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- Book Title
- How French Moderns Think : The Lévy-bruhl Family, from Primitive
- ISBN
- 9781914363023
- Subject Area
- Social Science
- Publication Name
- How French Moderns Think : the Lévy-Bruhl Family, from Primitive Mentality to Contemporary Pandemics
- Publisher
- Hau Books
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 215 Pages
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Publisher
Hau Books
ISBN-10
1914363027
ISBN-13
9781914363023
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10061848231
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Number of Pages
215 Pages
Publication Name
How French Moderns Think : the Lévy-Bruhl Family, from Primitive Mentality to Contemporary Pandemics
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Subject
Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Reviews
With a dizzying abundance of references, Keck demonstrates the breadth and versatility of Lévy-Bruhl's interests. These placed him at the intersection of different fields of investigation, reflection and action, not only as a central intercessor at the crossroads of philosophy and the social sciences (still in the making at the time), but also of medicine and public health issues, which led him to take charge of a real politics of knowledge., "Keck gives us a profound re-reading of Lucien Lévy-Bruhl's life-long quest for "another thought" in the pursuit of an affective logic of signs and community, a knowledge by sentiment, which is also a semiotic of the accident - different from that of the state and its symbols - and entangled with the torn history of the French Third Republic, the Dreyfus trial, and the rootlessness of French colonial violence. Retracing the larger historical tapestry within which the realization of such a knowledge by sentiment could unfold, Keck stresses the border figure of "the sentinel," a contingent being in between worlds, pointing us to the always uncertain possibilities of other futures and lives.", "Keck's book is a breath of fresh air. He is willing to explore the depth of the issues raised by Lévy-Bruhl in the rise of sociology and anthropology after the Dreyfus Affair and the struggle against French anti-Semitism, and to go beyond terminological allergy towards the concepts of "primitive" and "mentality." The argument that French social scientists have tried to understand catastrophic and "unpredictable" events highlights the insufficiency of a social scientific thought that restricted itself to modern conceptions of rationality and logic, and is increasingly important in today's era of pandemics and global warming."
Table Of Content
Foreword by Michael M. J. Fischer Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Responsibility (1857-1914) Chapter 1. The émancipation by the University Chapter 2. The Critique of Criminology Chapter 3. The Dreyfus Affair: A Matrix for Ethnology Chapter 4. The Success of Sociology and Socialism Part II: Participation (1914-1939) Chapter 5. Engagement in the War Chapter 6. Industrial Accidents Chapter 7. Colonial Sentinels Chapter 8. The Politics of Vigilance Part III: Transformations (1939-2023) Chapter 9. Defending a Threatened Heritage Chapter 10. Reconstructing the French Economy with Statistics Chapter 11. The Return of the Dreyfus Affair in Decolonization Chapter 12. Monitoring and Regulating Public Health and the Environment Conclusion References Works by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl Works by Henri Lévy-Bruhl Works by Marcel Lévy-Bruhl Works by Raymond Lévy-Bruhl Works by Daniel Lévy-Bruhl General References Index of Names Index of Notions
Synopsis
This book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and expertise in 20th-century France, shaping the anticipation of economic and health crises. How French Moderns Think tells the story of the French sociological tradition through four generations of the Lévy-Bruhl family: Lucien, who founded the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Paris; his son Henri, who founded the Institute of Roman Law; his grandson Raymond, who took part in the creation of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies; and his great-grandson Daniel, a vaccine specialist at the Institute of Public Health. This family history casts a new light on the philosophical debates about "primitive mentality" and the "savage mind." By drawing on the expert knowledge inherent in this family genealogy, the articulation between the logical and the "pre-logical" is not a cognitive question but rather a problem of anticipating unpredictable events. By relating Lévy-Bruhl's engagements from the Dreyfus Affair to the Minister of Armaments during the First World War, Keck narrates the confrontation of the socialist ideal of justice and truth with the French colonial experience and its transformations in global technologies preparing for pandemics.
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