ISBN:
9780415724227
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (592 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Theoretical Logic in Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx's very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim's case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to Volume Two; Chapter One: Prolegomena. General Theoretical Argument as Interpretation: The Critical Role of "Readings"; Part One Collective Order and the Ambiguity about Action; Chapter Two: Marx's First Phase (1): From Moral Criticism to External Necessity; 1. Reduction and Conflation in Marxist Interpretation; 2. "Early Writings"": From Normative Tension to Utilitarian Calculation; 2.1. Moral Criticism and the Appeal to Universal Norms: The Starting Point
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2.2. Natural Necessity and the Appeal to Self Interest: The Initial Transition2.3. Alienation and the Submission to Material Order: The Ambivalent Acceptance of Political Economy in the 1844 Manuscripts; 2.3.1. The Challenge of the "Theses on Feuerbach": Philosophical Multidimensionality Reaffirmed as Species-Being; 2.3.2. The Tentative Solution: "Natural Man" and the Instrumental Logic of Political Economy; 2.3.3. The Hanging Thread: The Subjective Foundations of Alienation and the Problem of the Transition to Communism
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Chapter Three: Marx's First Phase (2): The Attack on Moral Criticism and the Origins of a Historical Materialism1. The Years of Transition; 1.1. The Attack on Cultural "Generality" and the End of Philosophy; 1.2. Transforming the Status of "Alienation": The Attack on Subjectivity in the Transition to Communism; 1.3. The Residual Category of Later Marxism: Inexplicable Normative Action; 2. Maturity: Rational Action and Coercive Order in The Communist Manifesto; 3. Conclusion: Interpretive Errors and Marx's True Contribution
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Chapter Four: Durkheim's First Phase (1): The Ambiguous Transition from Voluntary Morality to Morality as External Constraint1. Reduction and Conflation in Durkheimian Interpretation; 2. Durkheim's Early Writings: The Unsuccessful Search for Voluntary Morality; 2.1. Social Crisis and the Search for a Responsive Collectivism; 2.2. The Critique of Classical Economy: Morality as the Collectivist Alternative; 2.3. Durkheim's Contradictory Approaches to Moral Order: Theoretical Ambivalence and the Movement toward an Antivoluntaristic Determinism
Description / Table of Contents:
2.3.1. The Problem of Action: Durkheim's Ambiguous Critique of Egoistic Rationality2.3.2. The Problem of Order: The Tortuous Path toward Collective Control; 2.4. Involuntary Morality and Durkheim's First Sociology; 2.5. Conclusion: Mechanical Order and Durkheim's Relation to the Instrumentalist Tradition; Chapter Five: Durkheim's First Phase (2): The Division of Labor in Society as the Attempt to Reconcile Instrumental Order with Freedom; 1. "Material Individualism" as the Antidote to Mechanical Order: The Division of Labor in the Early Sociological Essays
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2. Empirical Discovery and Theoretical Ambivalence in The Division of Labor in Society
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Description based upon print version of record
