publishing

In a well-researched book, the sociologist Sébastien Lemerle delivers a breakthrough analysis of the dissemination and reception of biologism in France from the 1960s until the 2000s. Through the frenetic output of best-sellers linking biological theories to the explanation of social behaviors, he shows how biologists came to be considered as intellectuals in the public arena.

As publishing markets become increasingly international, sociology looks at the translation of work in the social sciences and humanities. Gisèle Sapiro shows the effects that the crossover between the academic and publishing spheres has on translation practices.

Robert Irwin’s Visions of the Jinn looks at the illustrations of the Arabian Nights and provides a unique account of the history of publishing in modern Europe. By engaging this central work of orientalism, he retraces the evolution of European representations of the Arab world.