ABSTRACT

The objective and subjective difficulties encountered during the elaboration of this book would not be worth questioning if they were not an indication of some of the obstacles the social history of the social sciences encounters, particularly when it seems to infringe the rules of academic propriety that contribute to defining the limits of what can be thought and said in a given historical state of the academic field. By clarifying the intellectual conditions under which this research took shape, I would like to consider some of the opposition formulated against the analyses I proposed and to question the censorship that prohibits a complete questioning of a research subject to which one remains closely attached through different layers of interest.