Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume 1: The Social Determination of Method

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Cover -- Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness VOLUME 1 THE SOCIAL DETERMINATION OF METHOD -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE PROGRAMMATIC ORIENTATION TOWARD SCIENCE -- 1.1 "The Mastery of Man over Nature" -- 1.2 Behaviuorists and Weberians -- 1.3 Mannheim's "Scientific Sociology of Culture" -- 1.4 The Structural Links of Science-Oriented Ideology -- 2. THE GENERAL TENDENCY TO FORMALISM -- 2.1 Formalism and Conflictuality -- 2.2 The Structural Affinity of Practical and Intellectual Inversions -- 2.3 Reconciliation of Irrational Forms -- 2.4 Formal/Reductive Homogenization and Universal Value-Equation -- 2.5 The Social Substance of Operational Rationality -- 2.6 The Concept of Nature as a Dehistoricized Formal Abstraction -- 2.7 "Formal Rationality" and Substantive Irrationality -- 3. THE STANDPOINT OF ISOLATED INDIVIDUALITY -- 3.1 Individualistic Conceptions of Conflict and Human Nature -- 3.2 The Elevation of Particularity to the Status of Universality -- 3.3 The Inversion of Objective Structural Relationships -- 4. NEGATIVE DETERMINATION OF PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY -- 4.1 Substance, Subjectivity, and Freedom -- 4.2 The Positive Aspect of Critical Negation -- 4.3 The Quantification of Quality and the Law of Measure -- 4.4 Second Order "Mediations of the Mediation" and the Triumph of Negativity -- 4.5 Reconciliatory Function of "Negativity as Self-Transcending Contradiction" -- 4.6 Negativity in Sartre and Marcuse: Dependency on the Ideologically Dominant Discourse -- 5. THE RISE AND FALL OF HISTORICAL TEMPORALITY -- 5.1 Historical Explanation in Ancient Greece and in the Middle Ages -- 5.2 "Divine Providence" in Bourgeois Philosophies of History -- 5.3 Vico's Conception of Civil Society and History -- 5.4 Organic Models as Substitutes for Historical Explanation.