The Sociogony : Social Facts and the Ontology of Objects, Things, and Monsters.

Intro -- The Sociogony: Social Facts and the Ontology of Objects, Things, and Monsters -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Toward 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 -- 1 Social Facts -- 2 The Impersonality of Facts -- 3 Collective Conduct -- 4 Collective Consciousness -- 5 Collective Emotions and Sentiments -- 6 Currents and Crystallizations -- 7 Externality -- 8 Coercion and Authority -- 9 Irreducibility -- 2 The Sociogony -- 1 LARD (Lack, Assemblage, Repression, and Desideration, or, Weird Nature) -- 2 Ebullience -- 3 Projection and Externalization -- 4 Objectification and Internalization -- 5 Estrangement, Fetishistic Reversals and Inversions, or, the Problem with Straw Hats -- 6 Reification and Sublation -- 7 Alienation and Domination -- 8 Derealization and Desublimation, or, Treitschke in Narnia -- 3 A Formal Intermezzo -- 1 Hyper-Praxis -- 2 The Dynamistic Circle -- 3 The Inhuman Equivalent -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Sociogony attempts to forge a new strain of critical social theory by repositioning Durkheim's relationship to Hegel and Marx. A fresh look at social facts, authority, and processes of genesis, rule, and decay provide a stable social ontology for a world turned upside down.

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