Introduction: Toward a Social Science of the Social Sciences / Didier Fassin and George Steinmetz  1
Part One. Disciplines in the Making
1. Concept-Quake: From the History of Science to the Historical Sociology of Social Science / George Steinmetz  21
2. Spaces of Real Possibilities: Counterfactuals and the Impact of Donors on the Social Sciences / Álvaro Maorcillo Laiz  81
3. The Social Life of Concepts: or, How to Study the Idea of Creativity? / Bregje F. Van Eekelen  107
4. Epistemological Crises in Legal Theory: The (Ir)Rationality of Balancing / Carel Smith  129
5. The Reinvention of Sociology: Into the Trenches of Fieldwork at the Time of the Algerian Liberation War / Amín Pérez  147
Part Two. From the National to the Global
6. How Sociology Shaped Postwar Poland and How Stalinization Shaped Sociology / Agata Zysiak  175
7. The Public Anthropology of Violence in India / Chitralekha  195
8. Challenging Objectivity in Japan’s Long 1968 / Miriam Kingsberg Kadia  218
9. How Political Commitment Delineates Social Scientific Knowledge / Kristoffer Kropp  240
10. Making Sense of Globalizing Social Science / Johan Heilbron  262
Part Three. Exploring Borders and Boundaries
11. Critical Humanities and the Unsettling of the Sociological Field: Is There a French Exception? / Jean-Louis Fabiani  287
12. Recovering Subalternity in the Humanities and Social Sciences / Peter D. Thomas  310
13. Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion / John Lardas Modern  328
14. Cooperative Primates and Competitive Primatologists: Prosociality and Polemics in a Nonhuman Social Science / Nicolas Langlitz  351
15. The Rise and Rise of Posthumanism: Will It Spell the End of the Human Sciences? / Didier Fassin  368
Contributors  393
Index 397

Didier Fassin and George Steinmetz, editors