Durkheim et Mauss lecteurs du comte de Saint-Simon : une voie française pour le socialisme
Christophe Prochasson
By the end of the nineteenth century, a new conception of socialism took shape in France. Confronted to the growing success of marxism in its various trends, many intellectuals tried to outline new ways. Among them, Émile Durkheim and his nephew Marcel Mauss, and also many students of the first one such the ethnologist Robert Hertz and the economist François Simiand. The social disturbance which, they thought, was striking the French society, preyed on the minds of these sociologists who thought it right to rely upon science as a mean to reform it. Prior to them, Saint-Simon, whom Durkheim brought back to mind through a serie of lectures at Bordeaux University, had taken a similar step, looking for a way to give birth to a social science which could bring to its end the crisis ensuing the French Revolution. This renewal of Saint-Simon a man who had been overshadowed for more than fifty years, thanks to one of the main founders of the French sociology must be seen as offering a political and scientific meaning which this article wishes to analyze.
• Le socialisme comme objet de science
• Saint-Simon, père de la sociologie
• Le socialisme de Saint-Simon
• Les leçons de Durkheim