Sociogony

Mark P. Worrell, Ph.D. (2003, University of Kansas), is Professor of Sociology at SUNY Cortland. Worrell has published widely in critical theoretical journals, is the author of several previous books, and serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Critical Sociology.

• Table of Contents PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Towards a "Marxheimian" SociologyAuthority and Authoritarianism Reason and Mediation The Concept The Absolute Ersatz Absolutes Critical and Ordinary Sociology Circle the Invisible The Negative Absolute Networks and Sideways Glances at Jittery Totalities Marxist Association The Facticity of the SocialSocial Facts The Impersonality of Facts Collective Conduct Collective Consciousness Collective Emotions and Sentiments Currents and Crystallizations Externality Coercion and Authority Irreducibility The SociogonyLARD (Lack, Assemblage, Repression, and Desideration, or, Weird Nature) Ebullience Projection and Externalization Objectification and Internalization Estrangement, Fetishisitc Reversals and Inversions, or, the Problem with Straw Hats Reification and Sublation Alienation and Domination Derealization and Desublimation, or, Treitschke in Narnia A Formal IntermezzoHyper-Praxis The Dynamistic Circle The Inhuman Equivalent BibliographyIndex