 Beyond human and non-human: The need for a materialist approach of the living in social sciences 
In line with the questioning of modern dualisms as subject/object and nature/artifice, this article introduces a critique of the notion of non-human generally used to indicate the material components of the world (physical, chemical, biological, social, and technical). It proposes the adoption of an emergentist materialism which, against any excessive reductionism, allows to consider what it is particular to the living, and to go beyond the epistemological indistinction carried by the notion of non-human. If it is important to reintegrate in social sciences’ thinking how humans interact with other beings who constitute the world, it is essential, however, to make a distinction that indicates the specificity of the living to grasp the major issues related to the Anthropocene.