Professor Mike Gane

  • Emeritus Professor of Sociology
MIke Gane

Mike Gane was a founder member of the Department of Social Sciences at Â鶹ֱ²¥ when it was established in 1972.  He took a BA in Sociology at Leicester University, 1968, and then a PhD at the London School of Economics. He returned to Leicester 1971-2, and then to Â鶹ֱ²¥ in 1972 and was subsequently Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Sociology. He became Emeritus Professor at Â鶹ֱ²¥ University in 2008

Since 2008 he has published among other things,

  • ‘The Paradox of Neo-liberalism’ (Durkheimian Studies, 2009, vol 15, pp 20-25)’
  • ‘Durkheim’s Theory of Violence’ (ISSJ, 2010, ed  S R Mukherjee pp 41-50),
  • Symbolic Exchange (A Baudrillard Dictionary, ed R Smith. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010 pp 210-213),
  • ‘The Emergence of French Sociology: Durkheim and Mauss’ (The History of Continental Philosophy, ed A. Schrift 2010, vol 3, pp 87-110),
  • ‘Baudrillard’s Radicalisation of Fetishism’ (Cultural Politics, 2011, vol 7. no 3, pp 371-90),
  • Jean Baudrillard  (The Virilio Reader, ed. J. Armitage, 2013 pp 36-8),
  • ‘Auguste Comte and the Persistence of Metaphysics’ (Discipline Filosofiche, xxiii, 1, 2013, pp 207-227).
  • ‘The Cultural Logics of Neoliberalism’  (Cultural Politics, 2015, vol 11, no 1.).

And reviews including ‘Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, vol 3’ by Mary Pickering (The English Historical Review, Oct. 2011, pp 1216-17), ‘French Post-War Social Theory’ by Derek Robbins (Durkheimian Studies, 18, 2012, pp 140-1), ‘Baudrillard and Theology’ by James Walters (in the LSE Review of Books, January 24th , 2013),   Cours de Philosophie Positive (Leçons 46-51), by Auguste Comte (Revue Européenne des Sciences Sociales, 5, 1, 2013  pp. 276-8.),   ‘The Education of David Martin. The Making of an Unlikely Sociologist’. (in: LSE Review of Books, March 18th 2014), and ‘Neoliberal Culture: Living with American Neoliberalism’, (in Cultural Politics, 10, 1, pp 120-213).

He was interviewed in IJBS, 2014, vol xi, 1, ‘Sociology, Politics, Academia’.

He has a continuing interest in British and French social theory and philosophy, and is currently working on the emergence, development and critique of neo-liberal governmentality and culture; and the relation between history, theory, fact and fiction in nineteenth and twentieth century social sciences.

He has a continuing interest in British and French social theory and philosophy, and was most recently working on the emergence, development and critique of neo-liberal governmentality and culture; and the relation between history, theory, fact and fiction in nineteenth and twentieth century social science.

Books (single authored)

  • On Durkheim’s Rules of Sociological Method, 1988 Routledge pp 193 0-415-00251-6 /  0-415-04252-6   
  • Baudrillard, Critical and Fatal Theory, 1991 Routledge pp 243 0-415-03774-3 / 0-415-03775-1
  • Baudrillard’s Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture, 1991 Routledge pp  184 0-415-06306-x / 0-415-06307-8 eBook  0-203-41362-x
  • Harmless Lovers?  Gender, Theory and Personal Relationships, 1993 Routledge pp 229 0-415-09448-8 / 0-415-09449-6
  • Jean Baudrillard: In Radical Uncertainty. 2000 Pluto pp vii +118 0-7453 1636 0 / 0-7453 1635 2
  • French Social Theory.  2003 Sage pp xi + 207. 0-7619 6830 x/ 0-7619 6831 8
  • Auguste Comte, 2006 Routledge pp xv + 158  0415385431/0415385423

Books (multi-authored, and co-authored)

  • Reform or Revolution? (with J Gardiner) 1976,Open University Press 0-335-07161-9
  • Patterns of Inequality, (with A Blowers) 1976, Open University Press 0-335-07160-0
  • Ideological Dilemmas (co-authored with M Billig et al), 1988 Sage pp 180 0-8039-8095-7
  • [With N. Gane] Introduction: Symbolic Exchange and Death Today.  In: J. Baudrillard Symbolic Exchange and Death, Sage, 2016, pp 1-14
  • Comte and His Liberal Critics: From Spencer to Hayek.  In: Andrew Wernick (ed) The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte. London: Anthem, 2017,  pp. 205-225.
  • The ‘68 Disobedient Generation’ and the Rise of ChiVirLa.    In: Jose Esteban, and Bridget Fowler and Luis Gomes (eds).  Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason: Essays in Honour of Herminio Martins.  Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2018.
  • The Origins of the Sociology. In: Claeys, Gregory (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought.  Cambridge, CambridgeUniversity Press. 2018.

Books: edited

  • Towards a Critique of Foucault, 1986 Routledge pp 179 0-7102-0764-6
  • Ideological Representation and Power in Social Relations, 1989 pp  224 Routledge 0-415-02861-2
  • The Radical Sociology of Durkheim and Mauss, 1992 Routledge pp 229 0-415-06422-8 / 0415-06423-6 eBook 0-203-16001-0
  • Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews, 1993 Routledge pp 22 0-415-07037-6 / 0-415-07038-4 eBook 0-203-41585-X
  • Foucault’s New Domains (with T Johnson), 1993 Routledge pp 223 0-415-08660-4 / 0-415-08661-2
  • Jean Baudrillard: . [ed and intro, 4 vols] Sage 2000 0-7619-6832-6
  • Roland Barthes  [ed and intro, with N Gane, 3 vols] Sage 2004 0-7619-4952-6
  • Umberto Eco [ed and intro, with N Gane, 3 vols ] Sage, 2005 1-429-0174-X

Recent publications

  • The origins of neoliberalism: Modelling the economy from Jesus to Foucault by Dotan Leshem, Columbia University Press, 2016. In: Contemporary Political Theory, 2017, 16, 3, pp. 426-29.
  • Journey to Isidore: Auguste Comte’s Utopian Method. In: Revue Européenne des Sciences Sociales, 2016, 54, 2, pp. 43-67.
  • [With N. Gane] Introduction: Symbolic Exchange and Death Today.  In: J. Baudrillard Symbolic Exchange and Death, Sage, 2016, pp 1-14.
  • The origins of neoliberalism: Modelling the economy from Jesus to Foucault by Dotan Leshem, Columbia University Press, 2016. In: Contemporary Political Theory, 2017, 16, 3, pp. 426-29.
  • Ludicity, Intelligence and Power: Jean Baudrillard’s Unfinished Project. In: Lo Sguardo, Rivista di Filosofia, 2017, 23, 1, pp 299-312.
  • Comte and His Liberal Critics: From Spencer to Hayek.  In: Andrew Wernick (ed) The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte. London: Anthem, 2017,  pp. 205-225.
  • Postmodernism and Postmodernity.  In: Gavagai Philosophy Journal, 2016, 2, 186-7.
  • The Holocaust and Humanity: Bauman at the Limit.  In:  Cultural Politics. 2017 Vol 13, 3, 288-92.
  • Postmodernity.    In:  Encyclopaedia of Social Theory Edited by Bryan Turner, Wiley, 2017.
  • The New Foucault Effect. In: Cultural Politics, 2018, vol. 14, 1, 119-27.
  • The ‘68 Disobedient Generation’ and the Rise of ChiVirLa.    In: Jose Esteban, and Bridget Fowler and Luis Gomes (eds).  Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason: Essays in Honour of Herminio Martins.  Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2018.
  • The Origins of the Sociology. In: Claeys, Gregory (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought.  Cambridge, CambridgeUniversity Press. 2018.