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Author Worrell, Mark P., author

Title The sociogony : social facts and the ontology of objects, things, and monsters / by Mark P. Worrell
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 347 pages)
Series Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 128
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 128.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2019)
Subject Authority.
Evidence.
Belief and doubt.
Neoliberalism.
PHILOSOPHY -- Essays.
PHILOSOPHY -- Reference.
Authority.
Belief and doubt.
Evidence.
Neoliberalism.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018059230
ISBN 9789004384026
9004384022