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This book gathers several studies on the family and on the way early modern philosophers such as Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Pufendorf, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Diderot did conceptualize, explain and describe it. The texts focus on juridical, moral, political issues.

The aim of this work is to introduce the French-speaking public to Disability Studies, which emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom at the end of the 1970s, in line with the social movements of disabled people fighting against their exclusion from society.

Through the implementation in French schools of a renewed moral and civic education program starting in 2015, the book examines the multiple conditions - political, institutional, organizational and intellectual - governing the education of the citizen, and explores its possibilities.

Half-way between the textbook and the collection of case studies, this book takes readers behind the scenes of the sociological analysis of religion. Through eleven original contributions, it demonstrates how sociologists can engage with religious matters and contribute through them to a better understanding of society.

Building on an innovative reading of D.Hume's Treaty On Human Nature, this work revisits the way the concept of self is approached, by considering it neither as a thing nor a being, but as a simple representation that originates in our emotional lives.

Dedicated to the work of Gregory Bateson and the epistemological controversies that plagued anthropology in the 1930s, this book reconstructs the classic debates in the field from the perspective of Bateson's heterodox position. In so doing, the book aims to contribute to contemporary debates on social interaction and cognition.