Jean-Claude Galey (Compiler) Différences, valeurs, hiérarchie: textes offerts à Louis Dumont. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Socales, 1984. 271320819X xxxiii/520 pages. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Texts in French and English. "Through the dialogue which is led both between the present contributions and with the man to whom they are dedicated, the 21 essays gathered in this volume are in harmony. Beyond diversity in approaches and topics, there emerges a common concern with the finalities pertaining to social sciences and their methods. The development reveals in our own culture and modern society a particular apprehension of humanity, delineating it as all the more exceptional in that it denies its own identity with the universalism it professes and which it, at times, through ideological delusion." This work is dedicated to Louis Dumont (1911-1998), a French anthropologist and specialist in the cultures and societies of India, as well as western social philosophy and ideologies.