The article is an effort to distinguish the problems linked to the notion of individual. Arguing that we cannot sever, on the logical level, individual from predicate, the author underlines that sociology has to do with a construct, the "epistemic individual" (P. Bourdieu) and rejects the anti-objectivist point asserting that individuals are necessary to clarify some paradoxes. Moreover, to oppose modern individuals to formerly determinisms is a deadlock, at least because it implies the idea that social would be a reversible option from which we could get free. Finally, the philosophy of postmodern theoricians about individualism and networks is a kind of eschatologism whose conceptual presuppositions as well as sociological implications are questionable. Since the benefits of the notion of individual, theoretically or empirically, are weak, that notion itself deserves to be put aside, until further notice.
Individual; Predicate; Class; Freedom; Social