Introduction: toward a "marxheimian" sociology
Authority and authoritarianism
Reason and mediation
The concept
The absolute
Ersatz absolutes
Critical and ordinary sociology circle the invisible
The negative absolute
Networks and sideways glances at jittery totalities
Marxist association
The facticity of the social
Social facts
The impersonality of facts
Collective conduct
Collective consciousness
Collective emotions and sentiments
Currents and crystallizations
Externality
Coercion and authority
Irreducibility
The sociogony
Lard (lack, assemblage, repression, and desideration, or, weird nature)
Ebullience
Projection and externalization
Objectification and internalization
Estrangement, fetishisitc reversals and inversions, or, the problem with straw hats
Derealization and desublimation, or, treitschke in narnia
A formal intermezzo
Hyper-praxis
The dynamistic circle
The inhuman equivalent
Bibliography
Index.