The collective memory by maurice halbwachs biography
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Halbwachs, Maurice (1877–1945)
French philosopher and sociologist.
Maurice Halbwachs studied with both the philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson (1859–1941) and the sociologist Émile Durkheim (1858–1917).
His best-known work opened new perspectives on the concept of collective memory, understood as the social practices by which different groups of people recollect their common past.
Born on 11 March 1877, Halbwachs graduated from École Normale Supérieure , receiving his agrégation first in philosophy in 1901, later in sociology.
He thus reached intellectual maturity about the time of the Dreyfus affair, which tore France in two.
The collective memory by maurice halbwachs biography
His outlook was cosmopolitan; Halbwachs was one of a number of French intellectuals who valued and absorbed German scholarship. His early work was on metropolitan life and living standards. In 1913 he published La classe ouvrière et les niveaux de vie: Recherches sur la hiérarchie des besoins dans les sociétés industrielles contemporaines (T