Sacred Revolutions is a well-researched, dense, and extremely rich study of French sociology and its historical, cultural aftermath. . . . Richman’s book is among the first to examine in depth the complicated genealogy of French sociology from Durkheim to the avant-garde. . . . Sacred Revolutions clearly opens a new area in comparative studies, provoking many curious, unexplored questions about modernism, postmodernism, critical theory, and intellectual history.