Sociology

Sociology - Philosophy

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. The Enlightenment
1. 1 Prehistory
1. 2 The concept of modernity
1. 3 A moral science
1. 4 The development of social theory
1. 5 Inner strains
2. Hegel
2. 1 Reconciling modernity
2. 2 The labour of the negative
2. 3 The debate over modernity
3. Liberals and Reactionaries
3. 1 Post-revolutionary debates
3. 2 Agonistic liberalism: Tocqueville and Mill
3. 3 Providence and race: Maistre and Gobineau
4. Marx
4. 1 The adventures of the dialectic
4. 2 History and capitalism
4. 3 Class struggle and revolution
5. Life and Power
5. 1 Evolution before and after Darwin
5. 2 Two evolutionists: Spencer and Kautsky
5. 3 Nature as the will to power: Nietzsche
6. Durkheim
6. 1 Social evolution and scientific objectivity
6. 2 Society as a moral reality
6. 3 Meaning and belief
7. Weber
7. 1 Prussian agriculture and the German state
7. 2 Science and the warring gods
7. 3 History and rationalization
7. 4 Liberal imperialism and democratic politics
8. The Illusions of Progress
8. 1 The strange death of liberal Europe
8. 2 Objectivity and estrangement: Simmel
8. 3 The self dissected: Freud
8. 4 Memories of underdevelopment: Russian intellectuals and capitalism
9. Revolution and Counter-Revolution
9. 1 Hegelian Marxism: Lukács and Gramsci
9. 2 Heidegger and the conservative revolution
10. The Golden Age
10. 1 Theories of capitalism: Keynes and Hayek
10. 2 Functionalist sociology: Talcott Parsons
10. 3 Despairing critique: the Frankfurt school
11. Crack-Up?
11. 1 The 1960s and after
11. 2 Structure and subject: Lévi-Strauss and Althusser
11. 3 Nietzsche’s revenge: Foucault and poststructuralism
11. 4 Carrying on the tradition: Habermas and Bourdieu
12. Debating modernity and postmodernity
12. 1 Postmodernity?
12. 2 Modernity and capitalism
12. 3 Reason and nature
12. 4 Theory and practice
12. 5 Universal and particular
12. 6 Beyond capitalism?
13. Changing the subject: globalization, capitalism, and imperialism
13. 1 Much ado about globalization
13. 2 The social as networks ... or as nothing
13. 3 Back to capitalism - and imperialism?
13. 4 The debate resumed
Further Reading
Index