La double nature du social: une conversation sur le temps, le transcendantal, la vie, etc. [entretien avec Maurice Bloch]

Can a theory emerge from the thousand ways of being born again by ethnographic research? Is rebirth a specifically human phenomenon? Can we experience rebirth in the absence of ritual? These are the types of questions Maurice Bloch discusses in the interview. He has come across these issues on several occasions during his career and has developed the theory that is the only species with a transcendental approach to the social, that is, with a capacity to construct roles and imaginary communities.