Une sociologie de l’existence est-elle possible ?

• Main Author: Danilo Martuccelli
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2011-10-01
• Series: Sociologies
• Subjects: existence; existentialism; individuation; modernity; ordeal
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/3617

Starting from the diagnosis of an increasing assertion of existential questions in contemporary societies, this article interrogates ways that sociology can address them. In the first part, it comes back to the great principles of existential philosophy particularly on Sartre’s work, that has, more than anyone else, explicitly marked the major essays of an existentialist sociology as well as the dead ends of these attempts. In the second part, relying on the previous conclusions, this article will develop the reasons of the rise of socio-existential themes in modernity, and it will answer the question of why, and especially how, sociological analysis can and must study existential questions.