Professor Mike Gane

  • Emeritus Professor of Sociology
MIke Gane

Mike Gane was a founder member of the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough 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 Loughborough in 1972 and was subsequently Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Sociology. He became Emeritus Professor at Loughborough 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.