Marcel Fournier, Marcel Mauss: A Biography. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, 448 pp., $US 37.95 hardcover (978-0-691-11777-5).
Originally published in French in 1994, Marcel Fournier's biography Venders more visible in anglophone circles the innovative social science paradigm of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), his uncle Emile Durkheim, and the French school of sociology. Conventional histories of sociology focused on great men--Durkheim, Weber, Marx--have obscured the collaborative character of the group. Mauss became its organizational and intellectual leader after Durkheim's death in 1916.
Fournier's biography is less about the personal life of Marcel Mauss (which is not particularly remarkable) and more about the seminal network of scholars that assembled around Durkheim. Mauss's collaborations are both academic (cross-cutting conventional disciplines of sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history) and political, largely a politics of engaged socialism to which sociology aspired to provide critical force. …
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