The Sociogony : : Social Facts and the Ontology of Objects, Things, and Monsters / / Mark P. Worrell.

• Author: Worrell, Mark P..
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences 128.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (347 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Toward a “Marxheimian” Sociology -- The Facticity of the Social -- The Sociogony -- A Formal Intermezzo -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.