Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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