The Sociogony : Social Facts and the Ontology of Objects, Things, and Monsters / Mark P. Worrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worrell, Mark P..

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences 128.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; v. 128

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoliberalism.

Belief and doubt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

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:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Dedication

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction: Toward a “Marxheimian” Sociology

The Facticity of the Social

The Sociogony

A Formal Intermezzo

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-38402-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004384026 DOI