René Lourau

René Lourau (1933, Gelos – 11 January 2000) was a French sociologist and educator.

Works

 * L'instituant contre l'institue [Instituting against the instituted], Paris: Anthropos, 1969
 * L'analyse institutionnelle [Institutional analysis], Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1970
 * (with Georges Lapassade) La sociologie [Sociology], Paris: Seghers, 1971.
 * Les analyseurs de l'Église: analyse institutionnelle en milieu chrétien [The analysts of the church: institutional analysis in Christianity], Paris: Anthropos, 1972
 * L'etat-inconscient [The unconscious state], Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1978
 * Le Journal de recherche: matériaux d'une théorie de l'implication [The research diary: materials for a theory of implication], Paris: Méridiens Klincksieck, 1988
 * (with Jacques Ardoino) Les pédagogies institutionnelles [Institutional pedagogies], Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1994.
 * Le principe de subsidiarité contre l'Europe [The principle of subsidiarity against Europe], Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1997