The Sociogony

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.

ISBN: 9781642590708

Publication date: February 25, 2020

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Towards a "Marxheimian" Sociology

1. Authority and Authoritarianism
2. Reason and Mediation
3. The Concept
4. The Absolute
5. Ersatz Absolutes
6. Critical and Ordinary Sociology Circle the Invisible
7. The Negative Absolute
8. Networks and Sideways Glances at Jittery Totalities
9. Marxist Association

1. The Facticity of the Social
2. Social Facts
3. The Impersonality of Facts
4. Collective Conduct
5. Collective Consciousness
6. Collective Emotions and Sentiments
7. Currents and Crystallizations
8. Externality
9. Coercion and Authority
10. Irreducibility

2. The Sociogony
3. LARD (Lack, Assemblage, Repression, and Desideration, or, Weird Nature)
4. Ebullience
5. Projection and Externalization
6. Objectification and Internalization
7. Estrangement, Fetishisitc Reversals and Inversions, or, the Problem with Straw Hats
8. Reification and Sublation
9. Alienation and Domination
10. Derealization and Desublimation, or, Treitschke in Narnia

3. A Formal Intermezzo
4. Hyper-Praxis
5. The Dynamistic Circle
6. The Inhuman Equivalent

Bibliography

Index