This book is available in French only.

Once unbridled, the Theory of Mediation comes fully into its own through the unfolding of its structuring of being. From the subatomic to the Dupont family, in the instantial phase of the instituting. From the Plogoff movement to a walk in the forest, in its performative phase. From the baker to the disciplinary field, and from associates to the crew on the side of the instituted.

Along the way, it also passes through the marriage of some and others, with the exception of the au pair girl. The sociological interpretation of Pythagoras’ theorem, which sheds new light on the paradoxes of mathematics. The caste system in India, not to be confused with the stratification of chemical formulae…

Not forgetting the differentiation and hierarchy of forms of knowledge, which enables clinical anthropology to move epistemologically beyond the generalising relativism of the social sciences, even when these take refuge behind the logical sophistication used to manage their own ceiling.

In short, throughout this journey, the reader will finally encounter “the thing” and discover the place of the transcendent. The question is no longer whether one believes in it, but how to structure it adequately. In the same way for those who believe in it as for those who do not. Jean Gagnepain, who defined himself as a “Christian thinker”, opened the way. Only one small step remained to be taken.