This book seeks to place Louis Maurice Halbwachs in his historical and intellectual context, showing that his work was sensitive to the events of his time, and that the development of his analysis could be influenced by happenstance.

Robert Leroux is a professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa. 

Jean-Christophe Marcel is a professor of sociology at the University of Burgundy.

Introduction; Chapter 1. A Theorist of Collective Memory, Éric Brian; Chapter 2. Halbwachs and the Durkheimian Perspective on History, Robert Leroux; Chapter 3. Maurice Halbwachs, Sociologist of Memory: His Reception in Italy and the Development of the Sociology of Memory, Teresa Grande; Chapter 4. Population as the Body of Society, Jean-Christophe Marcel; Chapter 5. Urban Morphology and Social Morphology: Marcel Roncayolo and the Work of Maurice Halbwachs, Gilles Montigny; Chapter 6. Halbwachs's Leibniz and Halbwachs's Sociology, Guillaume Coqui; Chapter 7. Halbwachs on Quetelet and the Use of Statistics in Sociology, Christian Robitaille; Chapter 8. Maurice Halbwachs and the Sociology of Consumption and Social Classes, Lorenzo Migliorati; Chapter 9. From Criticism of Moral to the Probalistic Test, Éric Brian; Chapter 10. The Age Criterion: Between Sociology and Biology, Marie Jaisson; Chapter 11. Speculation: Order or Disorder?, Jacques Lautman; List of Contributors; Index.