Abstract
The Strasbourg “moment” of Georges Gurvitch (1935-1948). How can we understand the thirteen years during which Georges Gurvitch (1894-1965) held the chair of sociology at Strasbourg University – a provincial time in which he nevertheless became a school master ? This article sketches four angles that deepen this ambivalence. Firstly, Gurvitch’s “moment” in Strasbourg opens up a privileged prism to observe the institutional palladium that the Durkheim school set around one of the rare chairs of sociology in France between the two World Wars. Second, we focus on a more personal affirmation of the field through the deployment of Gurvitch’s own sociological program. War and exile finally stress a political defence of sociology. However, these three modes reveal a last transversal angle, that, echoing Bertrand Müller, we shall name “L’esprit de Strasbourg”.
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