Age of the Social

Sal Restivo is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Technology, Culture and Society at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, USA and Special Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at Northeastern University in Shenyang, China. He has held Special Professor positions and endowed chairs at the University of Nottingham, UK, Harvey Mudd College, USA, the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, The University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Roskilde University, Denmark. He is a founding member and former president of the Society for Social Studies of Science and editor of Science, Technology and Society: An Encyclopedia. He is the author of Red, Black, and Objective: Science, Sociology, and Anarchism; Science, Society and Values, and The Sociological Worldview, and co-author of Asphalt Children and City Streets with D'Ambrosio and Mesquita and Worlds of ScienceCraft: New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies with Weiss and Stingl.

• Prologue1. Inquiry: Cautionary, Skeptical, and Wild2. A Biography of Society3. The Human Dimensions of the Sociological Imagination4. The Force Awakens: Imagining Society5. Nietzsche’s Revenge: The "I" as a Grammatical Illusion6. Kingdom of the Crystal Myth: Love and Evolution and the Social Construction of Mathematics7. Requiem for Plato: The Myth of THE Mathematician8. Raiders of the Last Illusion: The Last Chapter of "God" 9. Inside the Temple of Mind: Einstein’s Brain10. Romancing the Robots11. The Physics-Mysticism NexusEpilogue: Holonomy in Physics and Society12. The Ecumene Revisited in the Age of the Anthropocene13. The Black Hole Economy14. The Last Crusade: The Very Idea of Education15. Through a Sociological Lens Darkly: The Sociological Cogito and the Human ConditionIndex

"Restivo asks us to take seriously the discovery of the social, developed by sociologists and now beginning to permeate the biological, cognitive and engineering sciences. Doing this will require us to unmask the idols of science and religion, and to (really!) educate people to think and act critically. A powerful and challenging book."Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University, USA.