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An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including sociology, psychoanalysis, and the modern subject.

This paper focuses on the political interpretations of structuralism from the point of the view of the incongruous comparison between Marxism and Buddhism by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in the final pages of "Tristes Tropiques". Religions including Islam, Christianity and Buddhism are used as metaphors to analyze diffusion, familiarity, differentiation and dissolution of cultures. Topics include Social transformation and different levels of the structuring of modern social reality.

The article presents the debate between Gabriel Tarde and Émile Durkheim concerning the nature of sociology and its relation to other sciences held at the École des Hautes Études Sociales in 1903. It states that the debate is based on a script which consists of quotations from the works of Tarde and Durkheim, arranged to form a dialogue. It relates that a short version of the debate was acted out in French under the direction of Frédérique Aït-Touati held on March 14, 2008 at McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England.