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1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) |
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts and Citations -- Opening -- 0.1 Into the Abyss: Postmodernism Unraveling -- 0.2 Overview of the Work -- Part I. Metarealism -- 1. How the Real World Became a Fable, or the Realities of Social Construction -- 1.1 Realism as Scientism -- 1.2 Varieties of Mind-Dependence -- 1.3 When Realism Becomes Antirealism and the Reverse -- 1.4 Apocalyptic Realism and the Human Sciences, or Real as Socially Constructed -- 1.5 Metarealism: Modes of the Real -- 1.6 Conclusion: Modes of Reality -- Modes of Existence |
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Part II. Process Social Ontology -- 2. Concepts in Disintegration & Strategies for Demolition -- 2.1 The End of Religion -- 2.2 The End of Art -- 2.3 Strategies for Demolition -- 2.3.1 Immanent Critique -- 2.3.2 Relativizing Critique -- 2.3.3 Ethical Critique -- 2.4 Family-Resemblance, Polythetic Concepts, and Other Category Errors -- 2.5 Conclusion: Legitimation Crisis -- 3. Process Social Ontology -- 3.1 A World in Motion -- 3.2 Natural Kinds -- 3.3 Process Social Kinds: A First Pass -- 3.4 Conclusion: Beyond Anti-Essentialism -- 4. Social Kinds -- 4.1 Homeostatic Property-Cluster Kinds |
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4.2 A Process-Cluster Account of Social Kinds -- 4.2.1 Socially Constructed -- 4.2.2 Dynamic Clusters of Powers -- 4.2.3 Causal Processes that Anchor Clusters -- 4.3 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Kinds -- 4.4 Conclusion: Changing the Social World -- Part III. Hylosemiotics -- 5. Hylosemiotics: The Discourse of Things -- 5.1 Beyond the Linguistic Turn -- 5.2 A Minimal Metaontology -- 5.3 The Meanings of Meaning -- 5.4 The Lion's Roar: A Brief Excursion on the Possibilities of Translation -- 5.5 A Hylosemiotics of Sign-Aspects -- 5.6 The Mind Turned Inside Out |
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5.7 Conclusion: A Light in the Abyss -- Part IV. Knowledge and Value -- 6. Zetetic Knowledge -- 6.1 Doubting Doubt -- 6.2 Knowledge without Certainty -- 6.3 Zetetic Abduction and Prediction: Inference beyond Pattern Recognition -- 6.4 Conclusion: From Skeptical Dogmatism to Emancipatory Zeteticism -- 7. The Revaluation of Values -- 7.1 The Values of Postmodernism -- 7.2 The Value of Value-Free Social Science -- 7.3 Illusions of Fact and Value: Overcoming the Is-Ought Distinction -- 7.4 The Human Sciences as a Way of Life -- 7.5 Revolutionary Happiness: Critical Virtue Ethics -- 7.6 Conclusion |
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8. Conclusion: Becoming Metamodern -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories--such as religion, science, and art--has collapsed under the weight of postmodern critiques, calling into question the possibility of progress and even the value of knowledge |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 21, 2021) |
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Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century.
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Post-postmodernism.
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Postmodernism.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Ontology.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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ontology (metaphysics)
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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Ontology
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Philosophy, Modern
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Post-postmodernism
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Postmodernism
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226786797 |
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022678679X |
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