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Social structure and forms of consciousness. Volume 1, The social determination of method /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
2010.
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- Cover
- Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness VOLUME 1 THE SOCIAL DETERMINATION OF METHOD
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE PROGRAMMATIC ORIENTATION TOWARD SCIENCE
- 1.1 "The Mastery of Man over Nature"
- 1.2 Behaviuorists and Weberians
- 1.3 Mannheim's "Scientific Sociology of Culture"
- 1.4 The Structural Links of Science-Oriented Ideology
- 2. THE GENERAL TENDENCY TO FORMALISM
- 2.1 Formalism and Conflictuality
- 2.2 The Structural Affinity of Practical and Intellectual Inversions
- 2.3 Reconciliation of Irrational Forms
- 2.4 Formal/Reductive Homogenization and Universal Value-Equation
- 2.5 The Social Substance of Operational Rationality
- 2.6 The Concept of Nature as a Dehistoricized Formal Abstraction
- 2.7 "Formal Rationality" and Substantive Irrationality
- 3. THE STANDPOINT OF ISOLATED INDIVIDUALITY
- 3.1 Individualistic Conceptions of Conflict and Human Nature
- 3.2 The Elevation of Particularity to the Status of Universality
- 3.3 The Inversion of Objective Structural Relationships
- 4. NEGATIVE DETERMINATION OF PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY
- 4.1 Substance, Subjectivity, and Freedom
- 4.2 The Positive Aspect of Critical Negation
- 4.3 The Quantification of Quality and the Law of Measure
- 4.4 Second Order "Mediations of the Mediation" and the Triumph of Negativity
- 4.5 Reconciliatory Function of "Negativity as Self-Transcending Contradiction"
- 4.6 Negativity in Sartre and Marcuse: Dependency on the Ideologically Dominant Discourse
- 5. THE RISE AND FALL OF HISTORICAL TEMPORALITY
- 5.1 Historical Explanation in Ancient Greece and in the Middle Ages
- 5.2 "Divine Providence" in Bourgeois Philosophies of History
- 5.3 Vico's Conception of Civil Society and History
- 5.4 Organic Models as Substitutes for Historical Explanation.
- 5.5 Vicissitudes of Historical Consciousness in the Twentieth Century
- 5.6 "There Is Neither Necessity nor Meaning"
- 5.7 "If Sense There Be, It Escapes Our Perception": From Ranke and Tocqueville to Sir Lewis Namier and Beyond
- 5.8 Social Antagonism and Historical Explanation
- 6. DUALISM AND DICHOTOMIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORIES
- 6.1 The Hidden Premises of Dichotomous Systems
- 6.2 The Functional Imperative of Operational Exclusiveness
- 6.3 Ruling Values Disguised as Instrumental Complexes: The Illusions of Value-Free Functionality
- 6.4 Ideological Roots of Methodological Dualism
- 6.5 The Inward-Oriented Subject of Philosophical Discourse
- 6.6 From "Unreconciled Dualism" to Dualism of Reconciliation
- 6.7 Moralizing Apriorism in the Service of the "Commercial Spirit"
- 6.8 The Dominance of Counter-Value in Antinomous Value-Relations
- 6.9 The Supersession of Dichotomies: The Question of Social Agency
- 7. THE POSTULATES OF "UNITY" AND "UNIVERSALITY"
- 7.1 The Incorrigible Circularity and Ultimate Failure of Individualistic Mediation
- 7.2 "The Process of the Genus with the Individual": The Reconciliatory Function of Anthropological Models
- 7.3 Fragmentation and "Longing for Unity"
- 7.4 "The Ideal General Will Should Also Be the Empirically General Will"
- 7.5 Unification through the Material Reproduction Process
- 8. METHOD IN A HISTORICAL EPOCH OF TRANSITION
- 8.1 The Marxian Reorientation of Method
- 8.2 From Hegel's "Science of Logic" to the Marxian View of Science
- 8.3 The Critique of Political Economy
- 8.4 Self-Critique as a Methodological Principle
- 8.5 Categorical Reflections of Social Antagonism and the Central Categories of Socialist Theory
- 8.6 Methodological Aspects of Mediation in an Epoch of Transition
- INDEX.