NEWS CATALOG COLLECTIONS AUTHORS FOREIGN RIGHTS + Alain Testart Epistemology essay for the social sciences Anthropology and contemporary worlds Political science and sociology € 10.00 BUY THE BOOK READ AN EXCERPT This essay starts from a paradoxical observation: while, for two centuries, the social sciences have accumulated a considerable amount of knowledge, they are still too often challenged as a science in their own right. Alain Testart defeats many received ideas. Going through the history of geometrical optics or the theory of relativity, he shows that if all reflection in science begins with subjectivity, none can be confined to it. The social sciences are no exception: as long as they try to "de-subject their subject matter" and manage to develop, through targeted comparativism, their theoretical and explanatory capacities, they will be able to go beyond the state of astronomy. before Galileo and Newton. This is the central thesis of this powerful and jubilant essay. Preface by Valérie Lécrivain AUTHOR (S) DETAILS NEWSPAPER Alain Testart Alain Testart (1945-2013) was an anthropologist at the CNRS ... Preface by Valérie Lécrivain FROM THE SAME AUTHOR Alain Testart Principles of general sociology YOU WILL LIKE ALSO Jean Delumeau God's future Alain Roussillon Reform and Politics in the Arab World Marie Gaille Environmental pathologies Vincent Geisser, Amin Allal Tunisia THE MEDIA ARE TALKING ABOUT IT Dominique Garcia, Jeremy Perrodeau The Gauls with the naked eye Pierre Gonneau Novgorod Alain Quemin The world of galleries Philippe Grandcolas The smile of the pangolin Search the site General catalog Anthropology and contemporary worlds Literary Arts and Essays Biology and health Chemistry Ecology, environment, earth sciences Right economy Geography, territories Story History of science Linguistic Mathematics Philosophy and History of Ideas Physics and Astrophysics Prehistory International relationships Journals Engineering Sciences Political science and sociology Religious sciences Society SUBSCRIBE TO THE CNRS EDITIONS NEWSLETTER! New arrivals Forbidden City, Imperial Palaces and Royal Courts RA 20 - The mine of Ri (Orne) French Yearbook of International Law 66 - 2020 African Antiquities 57 CNRS ÉDITIONS > CATALOG > ANTHROPOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY WORLDS > EPISTEMOLOGICAL ESSAY FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES THEMES Story Philosophy Journals Right economy Mathematics JOURNALS Anatoli HERMES Gallia Science Notebooks All journals COLLECTIONS Biblis CNRS Alpha The Great Voices of Research Photographic documentation All the collections SOCIAL NETWORKS Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn © CNRS EDITIONS 2021 Legal Notice Cookies policy Consent Foreign rights Who are we ? Contact We use cookies to improve your experience on our site. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our use of cookies. Consent ACCEPT