Jeffrey A. Halley is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. Past President of RC Sociology of the Arts, ISA, Chair-Elect of the ASA History of Sociology and Social Thought Section, he was a Fulbright Fellow, and guest Professor at the Universities of Ljubljana, Metz, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.Harry F. Dahms is Professor of Sociology, co-director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice, and co-chair of the Committee of Social Theory at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, director of the International Social Theory Consortium, and editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory.

• Introduction: What is Human about Human Affairs?; Jeffrey A. Halley and Harry F. Dahms Chapter 1. Consciousness and Crisis: Durkheim, Marx, Spinoza and Revolutionary vs Reactionary Spirit Today; Roslyn Wallach Bologh Chapter 2. The Uncertainties of the Social; Jean-Louis Fabiani Chapter 3. Brown on Sociality and the Social; Peter K. Manning Chapter 4. Brown’s “The Course of Activity”: Non-Repeatability, the Avant-garde, and Temporality; Jeffrey A. Halley Chapter 5. The Concept of Sociality in the Literary Criticism of Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann and Theodor W. Adorno; Daglind E. Sonolet Chapter 6. In Defense of the Social: Convergences and Divergences between the Humanities and Social Sciences in the United States; Harry F. Dahms Chapter 7. The Ontology of the Social as a Theory of Social Forms; Michael J. Thompson Chapter 8. Other Voices: The Concept of Heteroglossia in Michael E. Brown’s Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences; Allen Dunn Chapter 9. Conceptual Implications in Social Sciences for Inquiring into the Social. Insights from Michael E. Brown’s The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities; Ilaria Riccioni Chapter 10. Theorizing, Bounded Rationality, and Expertise: Cognitive Sociology and the Quasi-Realism of Problem-Solving as a Course of Activity; Michael W. Raphael Chapter 11. Response: What Is Distinctively Human About Human Affairs: Sociality and the Question of Society; Michael E. Brown.

Jeffrey A. Halley is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. Past President of RC Sociology of the Arts, ISA, Chair-Elect of the ASA History of Sociology and Social Thought Section, he was a Fulbright Fellow, and guest Professor at the Universities of Ljubljana, Metz, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.Harry F. Dahms is Professor of Sociology, co-director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice, and co-chair of the Committee of Social Theory at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, director of the International Social Theory Consortium, and editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory.

• Introduction: What is Human about Human Affairs?; Jeffrey A. Halley and Harry F. Dahms Chapter 1. Consciousness and Crisis: Durkheim, Marx, Spinoza and Revolutionary vs Reactionary Spirit Today; Roslyn Wallach Bologh Chapter 2. The Uncertainties of the Social; Jean-Louis Fabiani Chapter 3. Brown on Sociality and the Social; Peter K. Manning Chapter 4. Brown’s “The Course of Activity”: Non-Repeatability, the Avant-garde, and Temporality; Jeffrey A. Halley Chapter 5. The Concept of Sociality in the Literary Criticism of Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann and Theodor W. Adorno; Daglind E. Sonolet Chapter 6. In Defense of the Social: Convergences and Divergences between the Humanities and Social Sciences in the United States; Harry F. Dahms Chapter 7. The Ontology of the Social as a Theory of Social Forms; Michael J. Thompson Chapter 8. Other Voices: The Concept of Heteroglossia in Michael E. Brown’s Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences; Allen Dunn Chapter 9. Conceptual Implications in Social Sciences for Inquiring into the Social. Insights from Michael E. Brown’s The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities; Ilaria Riccioni Chapter 10. Theorizing, Bounded Rationality, and Expertise: Cognitive Sociology and the Quasi-Realism of Problem-Solving as a Course of Activity; Michael W. Raphael Chapter 11. Response: What Is Distinctively Human About Human Affairs: Sociality and the Question of Society; Michael E. Brown.

Jeffrey A. Halley is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. Past President of RC Sociology of the Arts, ISA, Chair-Elect of the ASA History of Sociology and Social Thought Section, he was a Fulbright Fellow, and guest Professor at the Universities of Ljubljana, Metz, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.Harry F. Dahms is Professor of Sociology, co-director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice, and co-chair of the Committee of Social Theory at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, director of the International Social Theory Consortium, and editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory.

• Introduction: What is Human about Human Affairs?; Jeffrey A. Halley and Harry F. Dahms Chapter 1. Consciousness and Crisis: Durkheim, Marx, Spinoza and Revolutionary vs Reactionary Spirit Today; Roslyn Wallach Bologh Chapter 2. The Uncertainties of the Social; Jean-Louis Fabiani Chapter 3. Brown on Sociality and the Social; Peter K. Manning Chapter 4. Brown’s “The Course of Activity”: Non-Repeatability, the Avant-garde, and Temporality; Jeffrey A. Halley Chapter 5. The Concept of Sociality in the Literary Criticism of Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann and Theodor W. Adorno; Daglind E. Sonolet Chapter 6. In Defense of the Social: Convergences and Divergences between the Humanities and Social Sciences in the United States; Harry F. Dahms Chapter 7. The Ontology of the Social as a Theory of Social Forms; Michael J. Thompson Chapter 8. Other Voices: The Concept of Heteroglossia in Michael E. Brown’s Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences; Allen Dunn Chapter 9. Conceptual Implications in Social Sciences for Inquiring into the Social. Insights from Michael E. Brown’s The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities; Ilaria Riccioni Chapter 10. Theorizing, Bounded Rationality, and Expertise: Cognitive Sociology and the Quasi-Realism of Problem-Solving as a Course of Activity; Michael W. Raphael Chapter 11. Response: What Is Distinctively Human About Human Affairs: Sociality and the Question of Society; Michael E. Brown.