Abstract
Abstract
French
This review essay presents Marcel Fournier’s work on the French school of sociology: the first biography of Marcel Mauss, the edition of Mauss’s Écrits politiques, the annotated edition of Émile Durkheim’s Lettres à Marcel Mauss and a new biography of Durkheim. The author analyses the status of biography in the social sciences, discusses the difficulty of this kind of work and presents some results of his research. To the question: ‘is there anything new to say about Durkheim and Mauss?’, the response is: yes.
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