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Exploring the backgrounds of the American and French revolutions, Higonnet finds that dominant American ideology welded together strands of individualist and communitarian thought under an umbrella of virtue, while most Frenchmen, by contrast, were still suspicious of economic i…
Society and politics are subjects of continuous and animated discussion in contemporary India. The essays brought together in this collection were written or published between 1964 and 1990. In this case it was also a period of many changes in the disciplines of social anthropol…
Habits of the Heart, first published in 1985, rapidly became one of the most widely discussed interpretations of American society in the twentieth century, joining a small body of pivotal studies such as Middletown and The Lonely Crowd. Much of what Habits described, and which r…
Coincé entre le vertige qu'inspire le marché mondial et la logique du repli sur les acquis, l'homme n'est plus citoyen mais sujet, un individu à la fois soucieux de son épanouissement personnel et de son insertion dans le monde de la technique et de la production. Et ce sujet ap…
