TY - BOOK AU - Heinich,Nathalie TI - Balzac as a precursor of analytical sociology PY - 2020///. N1 - 80 N2 - If Balzac was indeed a precursor of sociology, it was in the guise of a specific type of sociology known as “analytical” sociology. The approach has three principles derived from Max Weber: first, it is comprehensive rather than explanatory; second, it is neutral with regard to its subject; third, its method is of the “ideal-type”. This ideal-type model may shed light on an interpretation of Balzac’s greatest characters: Frenhofer as a romantic artist, Louis Lambert as a brilliant scholar, Lucien Chardon-de-Rubempré as an aristocratic poet, Lucien de Rubempré as a dandy, Lucien Chardon as a failed poet, Camille Maupin as a woman author, Joseph Bridau as an unloved creator. Balzac thus emerges as a pioneer of a comprehensive sociology of representations UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-l-annee-balzacienne-2020-1-page-207?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -