Full Description
The Sociogony re-examines the social ontology of what Durkheim calls 'social facts' in the light of critical and progressive hostilities to the facticity of facts and the necessity of moral absolutes in the shift from bourgeois liberalism to a neoliberal global order. The introduction offers a wide-ranging rumination on the concept of the absolute after its apparent downfall; the chapter on facts turns the problem of external authority on its head and the chapter dealing with the sociogony situates facts in a process of generation, rule, and decay. Drawing heavily on the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, the resulting synthesis is what the author refers to as a Marxheimian Social Theory that offers a new map and a stable ontology for the homeless mind.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Towards a "Marxheimian" Sociology
Authority and Authoritarianism
Reason and Mediation
The Concept
The Absolute
Ersatz Absolutes
Critical and Ordinary Sociology Circle the Invisible
The Negative Absolute
Networks and Sideways Glances at Jittery Totalities
Marxist Association
The Facticity of the Social
Social Facts
The Impersonality of Facts
Collective Conduct
Collective Consciousness
Collective Emotions and Sentiments
Currents and Crystallizations
Externality
Coercion and Authority
Irreducibility
The Sociogony
LARD (Lack, Assemblage, Repression, and Desideration, or, Weird Nature)
Ebullience
Projection and Externalization
Objectification and Internalization
Estrangement, Fetishisitc Reversals and Inversions, or, the Problem with Straw Hats
Reification and Sublation
Alienation and Domination
Derealization and Desublimation, or, Treitschke in Narnia
A Formal Intermezzo
Hyper-Praxis
The Dynamistic Circle
The Inhuman Equivalent
Bibliography
Index
