Anthropology, economics, ethnology, literary studies, history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, political science or sociology… these different fields overlap and connect. Over the past three decades, the Imec has gathered over one hundred collections of major authors in the humanities. Manuscripts, working files, correspondences and documentation—these archives provide researchers with useful materials, shedding light on contemporary debates.

This cluster reveals intellectual and scholarly constellations; the represented fields include French phenomenology (Jean-Louis Chrétien, Emmanuel Levinas, Henri Maldiney), Marxism (Louis Althusser, Alain Badiou, Henri Lefebvre), Christianity and personalism (Jean-Marie Domenach, Simone Fraisse, Emmanuel Mounier), political ecology (Jean Chesneaux, Françoise d’Eaubonne, André Gorz), utopias and critical theory (Miguel Abensour, Cornelius Castoriadis, Simone Debout), history and theory of the arts and literature (Hubert Damisch, Georges Didi-Huberman, Louis Marin, Henri Meschonnic), institutional and sector psychiatry (Lucien Bonnafé, Félix Guattari, Tony Lainé), psychoanalysis (Serge Leclaire, Joyce McDougall, Gisela Pankow, François Roustang), the "Young Turks" of 1960s French sociology (Jean Duvignaud, Edgar Morin, Alain Touraine), ethnology (Roger Bastide, Pierre Clastres, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl), or French theory thinkers (Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Félix Guattari, Paul Virilio).

File plan, « Auteurs » section, « Philosophie et sciences humaines » subsection

“Les fonds de sciences humaines et sociales” Lettre de l’Imec (No.12, Autumn 2010).