Imprint's Gallimard

Founded : 1966
Number of titles published : 153
Number of authors published (excluding joint authorship) : 94
Sales to date : 1 100 000 ex.
Best seller : Michel Foucault. Les Mots et les choses (1966) : 116 000 ex.

“I remember Benveniste’s reaction when I rang him three weeks after his book had come out. I told him: “Mr Benveniste, we are reprinting your book.” He replied: “you’re lying, Sir” then he added: “I have to sit down and hold my heart.” Up until then he had had all of two students. Within a year, he had 60 students attending his seminar at the Collège de France.”
(Interview with Pierre Nora, in Entreprise et Histoire n°24, June 2000.)

Social science officially entered academia in 1958. It was represented by a generation of great researchers and a rapidly growing student body. As Marcel Gauchet said, a whole new theoretical continent had emerged within two years, together with the publication of texts by Michel Foucault (Les Mots et les choses, 1966 ; L’Archéologie du savoir, 1969), Lacan, Derrida and Barthes (with outside publishers). This led to a dramatic shift in epistemology and criticism that was also to affect the social and political domain.

THE FIRST TITLE
Émile Benveniste. Problèmes de linguitique générale, I (1966)


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IN BRIEF
After entering the Académie Française in 1978, Dumézil wrote to Claude Gallimard : “this incident is a direct result of your social science imprint. Thank you.”

Social science has been discussed in many other places within the NRF, including François Erval’s “Idées” (1963-1984), “Les Essais”, “NRF Essais” (1987) and “Tel”.

For the past sixty years history has been given pride of place in the NRF list with a number of different imprints : "La Suite des Temps" (1941), "Les Trente Journées qui ont fait la France" (1959), "Archives" (1964) and "Témoins" (1966), "Tel" (1976) and "Folio Histoire" (1985), plus the monumental imprints "L'Univers des formes", "Encyclopédie de la Pléiade" and "Quarto".

A SHORT HISTORY
  In 1965 Gallimard invited historian, Pierre Nora, to restructure the non-fiction section. This meant reviving “Bibliothèque des idées”, creating a twin imprint for social science and convincing J.B. Pontalis to adopt a similar cover for his psychoanalysis imprint “Connaissance de l’inconscient”. Nora believed that a single cover design would give the books greater impact on the market and become as significant a hallmark as “Blanche” had so far been for Gallimard.
  One of the first cornerstones of the imprint was structuralism in ethnology and linguistics. Benveniste’s Problèmes de linguistique générale launched the imprint, followed by Geneviève Calame-Griaule’s Ethnologie et langage. The trend was reinforced with the publication later of ‘comparative’ studies by anthropologist Louis Dumont and historian of myth and religion Georges Dumézil, as well as classic texts by linguist Vladimir Propp and semiologist Yuri Lotman.
  However, ethnology and anthropology remained the first priority. This was where the impact of functional and structuralist theories was greatest – and later debate thereof. Classical Anglo-Saxon texts were at last translated, notably Kardiner’s The Individual and his Society, Evans-Pritchard’s The Nuer, Elkin’s Australian Aborigenes. Soon were added important studies by the new generation of researchers: anthropological interpretation by Geerz, Leach and Sablins. French language ethnology was represented by Africa specialists Luc de Heusch, Michel Izard, ethno-psychiatrist Georges Devereux, ethno-musicologist Gilbert Rouget… Métraux, Leiris, Delange, Dumont and Dumézil had already been published by NRF. New editions were printed and new monographs published (Homo hierarchicus and Homo aequalis by Dumont).
  Space was also given to the work of historians close to anthropology (Marcel Détienne, Jeanne Favret-Saada, Yvonne Verdier), including Karl Polanyi’s major work, La Grande Transformation, a radical critique of liberalism published in 1944 and translated in 1983. In Studies in Iconology, Erwin Panofsky provided a semiological reading of art through an innovative dialogue between art history and culture. The intrusion of sociology and cultural history could also be found in the history of science (Kuhn, Holton…), while scientists in turn successfully questioned the foundations and objectives of their own field: François Jacob, Ilya Prigogine.
  Raymond Aron took the imprint on the sociology track in 1967 with his theoretical history of the field, and later his classic political philosophy studies. The works of Max Weber were comprehensively translated at last together with the publication of contemporary studies by French sociologists (Lipovetsky, Mendras, Yonnet…). The work of Weber also raised the issue of religion, as did the work of several other authors, including Marcel Gauchet in Désenchantement du monde.
  Economics and politics were highlighted with the translation of seminal works (Shonfield, Galbraith, Reynolds…) and the publication of a philosophical and sociological history of the concept of politics. Epistemology and social science history were well represented with the seminal works of Foucault and Aron, as well as Lazarsfeld’s work on social science and Schumpeter’s on economic analysis.

GREAT SOCIOLOGISTS ...
Raymond Aron. Les Étapes de la pensée sociologique ; Penser la guerre, Clausewitz — Émile Benveniste. Problèmes de linguistique générale — Roger Caillois. Approches de la poésie — Geneviève Calame-Griaule. Ethnologie et langage — Elias Canetti. Masse et puissance — Marcel Detienne. L'Invention de la mythologie — Georges Dumézil. Mythe et épopée — Louis Dumont. Homo Hierarchicus ; Homo Aequalis — E.E. Evans-Pritchard. Les Nuer — Michel Foucault. Les Mots et les choses ; L'Archéologie du savoir — John Kenneth Galbraith. Le Nouvel État industriel ; La Science économique et l'intérêt général — Marcel Gauchet. Le Désenchantement du monde — Clifford C. Geertz. Bali — E. H. Gombrich. L'Art et l'illusion — François Jacob. La Logique du vivant — Abram Kardiner. L'Individu dans sa société — Thomas S. Kuhn. La Tension essentielle — Claude Lefort. Les Formes de l'histoire — Gilles Lipovetsky. L'Empire de l'éphémère — Iouri Lotman. La Structure du texte artistique — Henri Mendras. La Seconde Révolution française — Erwin Panofsky. Essais d'iconologie — Karl Polanyi. La Grande transformation — Vladimir J.A. Propp. Morphologie du conte — Marshall Sahlins. Âge de pierre, âge d'abondance ; Au cœur des sociétés — Dominique Schnapper. La France de l'intégration — Max Weber. Histoire économique ; Sociologie des religions ; L'Ethique protestante et l'esprit du capitalisme suivi d'autres essais — Paul Yonnet. Jeux, modes et masses…

33 TITLES TAKEN UP BY OTHER IMPRINTS
22 Tel : Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire ; Les Étapes de la pensée sociologique by Raymond Aron — La Bureaucratie céleste by Etienne Balazs — Problèmes de linguistique générale by Emile Benveniste — Masse et puissance by Elias Canetti — De Vienne à Cambridge — L'Invention de la mythologie by Marcel Detienne — Essais d'ethnopsychiatrie générale by Georges Devereux — Homo Hierarchicus by Louis Dumont — Les Nuer by E.E. Evans-Pritchard — Les Mots et les choses by Michel Foucault — Le Nouvel État industriel by John Kenneth Galbraith — La Logique du vivant by François Jacob — La Forme et l'intelligible by Robert Klein — L'Afrique fantôme by Michel Leiris — Le Vaudou haïtien by Alfred Métraux — Marx et les marxistes by Kostas Papaioannou — La Mère dévorante by Denise Paulme — La Musique et la transe by Gilbert Rouget — Style, artiste et société by Meyer Schapiro — Histoire de l'analyse économique by Joseph Aloys Schumpeter — Théorie de la classe de loisir by Thorstein Veblen.
6 Folio Essais : Michel Foucault. Un parcours philosophique by Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow — Les Mots, la mort, les sorts by Jeanne Favret-Saada — Les Formes de l'histoire by Claude Lefort — L'Empire de l'éphémère by Gilles Lipovetsky — La Seconde Révolution française by Henri Mendras — La Nouvelle alliance by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers
4 Quarto : Mythe et Epopée I, II and III. ; Esquisses de mythologie by Georges Dumézil — Dits et écrits 1954-1975, I ; Dits et écrits 1976-1988, II by Michel Foucault
1 Livre d'Art : L'Art et l'illusion by E. H. Gombrich

"BIBLIOTHÈQUE DES SCIENCES HUMAINES" AUTHORS HAVE ALSO PUBLISHED IN...
Archives : Michel Foucault — Art et artistes : E. H. Gombrich — Bibliothèque des Idées : Raymond Aron — Bibliothèque des Histoires : Jacques Berque, Marcel Detienne, Michel Foucault, Marcel Gauchet, Bernard Lewis, Pierre Rosanvallon, Nathan Wachtel, Edgar Wind — Bibliothèque de la Pléiade : Michel Leiris — Bibliothèque de philosophie : Claude Lefort — Blanche : Raymond Aron, Roger Caillois, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foulcault, Michel Leireis — Le Cabinet des lettrés : Philippe Pons — Le Chemin : Michel Foucault — Le Débat : Augustin Berque, Dany-Robert Dufour, Marcel Gauchet, Bernard Lewis, Paul Yonnet — Du Monde entier : Elias Canetti — L'Espèce humaine : Louis Dumont, Alfred Métraux — Les Essais : Raymond Aron, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Berque, Roger Caillois, Marcel Detienne, Luc de Heusch, Claude Lefort, Gilles Lipovetsky — Hors Série : Raymond Aron, Roger Caillois, John Kenneth Galbraith, E. H. Gombrich, Luc de Heusch, Michel Leiris, Dominique Schnapper — Idées : Raymond Aron, Jean Baudrillard, Roger Caillois, Abram Kardiner, Pierre Francastel, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Lazarsfeld, Alfred Métraux, Erwin Panofsky, Dominique Schnapper — L'Infini : Marcel Detienne, Alain Roger — Le Langage des contes : Geneviève Calame-Griaule — Le Monde actuel : John Kenneth Galbraith — Métamorphoses : Roger Caillois, Michel Leiris — La Montagne Sainte Geneviève : Georges Dumézil — Les Mythes romains : Georges Dumézil — NRF Essais : Gilles Lipovetsky, Dominique Schnapper — Poésie/Gallimard : Michel Leiris, Roger Caillois — Problèmes et documents : Raymond Aron — Le Promeneur : Erwin Panofsky — L'Univers des Formes : Jacqueline Delange et Michel Leiris — Les Vies parallèles : Michel Foucault

"BIBLIOTHÈQUE DES SCIENCES HUMAINES" AUTHORS IN THE JOURNAL "LE DEBAT"
Raymond Aron — Jean Baudrillard — Philippe Descola — Michel Foucault — Marcel Gauchet — Gerald Holton — André Lebeau — Bernard Lewis — Erwin Panofsky — Pierre Rosanvallon — Marshall Sahlins — Yvonne Verdier — Paul Yonnet

MARKETING INFORMATION
Size : 140 x 225
Number of titles available : 100
Number of new titles published annually : 2
Number of copies sold per year : 140 000 ex.
Average selling price : 24,50 €
Top 10 best sellers :
Michel Foucault. Les Mots et les choses
Michel Foucault. L'Archéologie du savoir
Pierre Jacob. La Logique du vivant
Émile Benveniste. Problèmes de linguistique générale, I
Ilya Prigogine et Isabelle Stengers. La Nouvelle Alliance. Métamorphose de la science
Raymond Aron. Les Étapes de la pensée sociologique
Marcel Gauchet. Le Désenchantement du monde
Jeanne Favret-Saada. Les Mots, la mort, les sorts
Christian Morel. Les Décisions absurdes
Erwin Panofsky. L'Œuvre d'art et ses significations