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La Sociologie en toutes lettres. L’histoire de la discipline à travers les correspondances. Sous la dir. de P. Vannier (Collection “Socio-logiques”)
This book, including thirteen chapters, treats different aspects of epistolary genre in the history of sociology. Correspondence of sociologists contains a valuable material on the life and work of sociologists, on revealing of their intellectual exchange networks, on the assessment of theories influence, on the analysis of their elaboration, on the understanding of their social, intellectual and political context. In this book are considered the general issues of epistolary genre in the history of sociology, as well as the particular correspondence themes of some of its representatives. This is about letters of classics, well-known sociologists (like Marx, Durkheim, Bouglé, George Gurvitch, Michel Crozier, Robert Merton), as well as less known social scientists, whose epistolary heritage has a great importance.