Table of Contents
Table of Contents
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Chapter One: Introduction
Why The Social?
Why Postmarxism?
Why Postmarxism and Social capital
Chapter Two: From the Social to the Political
Introduction
The Social in Historical Materialism
Setting out a Post- Terrain
Sociology and The Social in Postmarxism
Counter-Positions of The Social
Chapter Three: Classical Approaches to The Social
Introduction
The Sociological project and the Emergence of Positivism
Karl Marx: Logic to Contradiction to Mediation
Emile Durkheim: Moral Positivism and Mediation
Max Weber: From Rationality to Irrationality as Social Mediation
Chapter Four: Establishing a Basis for Postmarxism
Introduction
The New Priority
The Social as ‘Sedimentation’ and The Political as ‘Reactivation’
Chapter Five: From Antagonism to Equivalence
Introduction
Antagonism as the Limit of Social Objectivity
"You Can Only Free Somethings …": Hegemony and The Political
Hegemony and the Constitution of Equivalence
Chapter Six: Finding The Political in Social Capital
Introduction
What is Social Capital?
Forms of Social Capital
Social Capital and The Political
Chapter Seven: Desert - Migration as Social Dislocation
Introduction
Quantity and Composition of Global Migration
Migration and (Post)Industrialisation
Foundational Approaches to Migration
Definitional Problematics
Causation Theories
Continuation Theories
Postmarxism and Migration
Chapter Eight: Aspiration – Hegemonic Masculinity as Emptiness
Introduction
Gender Antagonism in the Modernity-Postmodernity Tension
The Emptiness of Hegemonic Masculinity
From Limit to Hegemony
Chapter Nine: The Impossibility of Society Thesis: Some Final Considerations
Introduction
Moving Between the Possibility and Impossibility of Society
Towards Syncretism: A Sociology of Postmarxism
