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

The Sociogony Re-examines The Social Ontology Of What Durkheim Calls `social Facts' In The Light Of Critical And Progressive Hostilities To The Facticity Of Facts And The Necessity Of Moral Absolutes In The Shift From Bourgeois Liberalism To A Neoliberal Global Order. The Introduction Offers A Wide-ranging Rumination On The Concept Of The Absolute After Its Apparent Downfall; The Chapter On Facts Turns The Problem Of External Authority On Its Head And The Chapter Dealing With The Sociogony Situates Facts In A Process Of Generation, Rule, And Decay. Drawing Heavily On The Works Of Hegel, Marx, Weber, And Durkheim, The Resulting Synthesis Is What The Author Refers To As A Marxheimian Social Theory That Offers A New Map And A Stable Ontology For The Homeless Mind. Introduction: Toward A Marxheimian Sociology -- Authority 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 Social -- Social Facts -- The Impersonality Of Facts -- Collective Conduct -- Collective Consciousness -- Collective Emotions And Sentiments -- Currents And Crystallizations -- Externality -- Coercion And Authority -- Irreducibility -- The Sociogony -- Lard (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 -- Derealization And Desublimation, Or, Treitschke In Narnia -- A Formal Intermezzo -- Hyper-praxis -- The Dynamistic Circle -- The Inhuman Equivalent -- Bibliography -- Index. By Mark P. Worrell. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 287-338) And Index.