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This book is an anthropology book, not a social and cultural anthropology book, but an existential anthropology book. It presents a critique of the theories and methods of the social sciences, which Albert Piette reproaches for side-stepping human beings, their modes of being and more generally the fact of existing. The book also offers an original combination of methods for exploring the details of existence: the particularities of each person in a group, the succession of situations in a day, and the subtlety of moments of presence. It gives rise to new theoretical propositions on what constitutes the specificity of human existence and social life

In the form of a short essay, this paper questions the conditions for describing the human individual as an entity with its own contour. The author criticises the classical expressions of social anthropology, whose observations and descriptions tend to dilute the human being. The author turns to Parmenides, Aristotle, and the mathematician René Thom to find grounds for describing the human being as a singular entity. On the other hand, in the notion of a volume of being, he finds a decisive lever allowing him to synthesise his theoretical proposal.

La réflexion de cet article part du contexte intellectuel des dernières années privilégiant nettement une pensée relationniste et propose de distinguer la science sociale de la science humaine et, plus spécifiquement, la sociologie (y compris les anthropologies sociales et culturelles) de l'anthropologie au sens strict du terme, comme science des hommes. L'article, d'une part, propose une critique de différentes lectures relationnistes (Goffman, Lévi-Strauss, Bourdieu, Latour) ainsi que de l'ethnographie comme relationnisme méthodologique et, d'autre part, à l'aide des notions de volume d'être et d'exo-actions, il veut valoriser l'idée de séparation et de singularité des individus ainsi que la méthode phénoménographique pour apprendre à regarder et analyser des êtres séparément.