Social Ontology : Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness. by Eldred, Michael

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Social Ontology of Whoness : Rethinking Core Phenomena of Political Philosophy. by Eldred, Michael

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Recognition and social ontology /

Table of Contents: “…Recognition and Social Ontology; Copyright; Contents; Volume Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1. …”
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Georg Lukács and the possibility of critical social ontology /

Table of Contents: “…-- 12 Normativity and Totality: Lukács' Contribution to a Critical Social Ontology -- 13 Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social Theory -- 14 Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork of Critical Social Ontology -- Index…”
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The very idea of organization : social ontology today : Kantian and Hegelian reconsiderations / by Krijnen, Christian

Table of Contents: “…4 Conclusion: Towards a New Meta-Perspective for OrganizationStudiesChapter 2 Towards an Idealist Social Ontology-Criticisms and Challenges; 1 Beyond Naturalism, Collective Intentionality, and Phenomenology; 2 Beyond Contemporary Philosophy of Recognition; 3 Speculative Idealism, Not Metaphysics; 3.1 Metaphysics, Logic, and the System of Philosophy; 3.2 The Phänomenologie in Hegel's Philosophical System; 4 Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit is Not Practical Philosophy; 5 Updating Idealism: A Methodological Guideline for ApproachingSocial Ontology; 6 Sociality as a Phantom in German Idealism.…”
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"I that is we, we that is I," perspectives on contemporary Hegel : social ontology, recognition, naturalism, and the critique of Kantian constructivism /

Table of Contents: “…Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 Hegelian Resources for Contemporary Thought: Introductory Essay; Part 1 Hegelian Social Ontology; Chapter 2 Hegel on Social Ontology and the Possibility of Pathology; Chapter 3 Ethical Perfectionism in Social Ontology-A Hegelian Alternative; Chapter 4 Towards an Institutional Theory of Rights; Chapter 5 Reason and Social Ontology; Part 2 Social Action, Ethical Life, and the Critique of Constructivism; Chapter 6 Does Hegelian Ethics Rest on a Mistake?…”
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Foucault's futures : a critique of reproductive reason by Deutscher, Penelope, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Judith Butler, precarious life, and reproduction : from social ontology to ontological tact --…”
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Rethinking rights : historical, political, and philosophical perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Reintegrating rights: Catholicism, social ontology, and contemporary rights discourse /…”
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Fundamentals of Ontological Commitment. by Valore, Paolo, 1972-

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The Nature of Social Reality. by Givigliano, Alfredo

Table of Contents: “…Table of contents; introduction; epistemological dimensions; outline for a social ontology; documentalità and intersubjectivity; the social ontology of scientific objects; norms, institutions, intentionality; normative dimensions of impossibility; acceptance, power and social ontology; disused norms; institutions without actions; rights and politics; the deconstruction of social ontology; social ontology and the concept of power; legal authority and practical reasoning; language; a formal approach to the ontology of social beliefs.…”
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Sociological realism

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Social ontology -- pt. 2. Sociological theory -- pt. 3. …”
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Facets of sociality

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Social ontology -- pt. 2. Collective action -- pt. 3. …”
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Engaging with the world : agencies, institutions, historical formations

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Social ontology and a new historical formation -- pt. 2. …”
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The economics of the libido : psychic bisexuality, the superego, and the centrality of the Oedipus complex by Pederson, Trevor C.

Table of Contents: “…COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Psychic bisexuality; CHAPTER TWO "An array of ideal values": ego psychology and the destiny of the Oedipus complex; CHAPTER THREE "We cannot fall out of this world": psychoanalysis and social ontology; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX On Wittgenstein's private language argument; REFERENCES; INDEX.…”
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An introduction to the social and political philosophy of Bertolt Brecht : revolution and aesthetics by Squiers, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Preliminary material -- Introduction -- Brecht's Ethics of Praxis -- Consciousness, Cognition and the Altering of Socio-temporal Order -- Eidetic Reduction and Contradiction -- Rethinking Brecht's Split Character: Dialectics, Social Ontology and Literary Technique -- Brecht's Dialectics of Enlightenment -- Primary and Secondary Contradictions -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Brecht's Works and Characters -- Index of Terms -- Brecht Chronology.…”
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Imagery, ritual, and birth : ontology between the sacred and the secular by Hennessey, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Birth imagery and the creation of sacred meaning -- Birth and death in the arts and humanities -- Religious objects and the Sheela-na-gig -- The social ontology of birth -- The secularization of religious objects during birth -- Art as sacred symbol in birth as a rite of passage -- Nonreligion and the sacred in new images of birth -- New feminisms and the subject of birth -- Transforming the culture of birth through imagery.…”
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Realism and sociology : anti-foundationalism, ontology, and social research by Cruickshank, Justin, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The in£uence of empiricism on social ontology : methodological individualism and methodological collectivism -- 3. …”
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The reality of social construction by Elder-Vass, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Part I. Social Ontology: 1. Introduction; 2. Norm circles -- Part II. …”
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Who owns you? : science, innovation, and the gene patent wars by Koepsell, David R. (David Richard)

Table of Contents: “…-- DNA and the commons -- Pragmatic considerations of gene ownership -- Nature, genes and the scientific commons : a social ontology of invention -- So, who owns you? : some conclusions about genes -- Property, and personhood.…”
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The domestication of critical theory by Thompson, Michael J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…How critical theory was domesticated -- The present state of critical theory -- The rise of neo-idealist critical theory -- One-dimensional rationality and the limits of pragmatist reason -- The insufficiency of recognition: a critique of Axel Honneth's concept of critical theory -- Reconstructing the logic of critical social theory -- Structure and consciousness: reconsidering the base-superstructure hypothesis -- System and function: the normative basis of social power -- Fact and value: the epistemological framework of critical theory -- Renewing critical philosophy -- Against the postmetaphysical turn: toward a critical social ontology.…”
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Justice, Order and Anarchy : the International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. by Prichard, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series editor's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Retrieving Proudhon -- 2 Anarchy and Contemporary IR theory -- 3 National unity and the nineteenth-century European equilibrium -- 4 War, providence and the international order in the thought of Rousseau, Kant and Comte -- 5 From providence to immanence: force and justice in Proudhon's social ontology -- 6 The historical sociology of war: order and justice in Proudhon's La Guerre et la Paix -- 7 Anarchy, mutualism and the federative principle -- 8 Anarchy is what we make of it: rethinking justice, order and anarchy today -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Philosophy of the Social Sciences : Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice. by Mantzavinos, C.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Basic Problems of Sociality; 1 Language and Social Ontology; 2 Shared Agency; 3 The Reality of Group Agents; Part II Laws and Explanation in the Social Sciences; 4 Physicalism and the Human Sciences; 5 Complexity and Explanation in the Social Sciences; 6 The Heterogeneous Social: New Thinking About the Foundations of the Social Sciences; 7 What Is This Thing Called "Efficacy"?…”
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Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces by García-Quesada, George

Table of Contents: “…List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: For a Multilinear Science of History -- 1. History with Social Ontology -- 1.1. Praxis and Spatio-Temporal Totalisation -- 1.2. …”
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Deleuze and the social

Table of Contents: “…Holland -- Deleuze, change, history / Jussi Vähämäki and Akseli Virtanen -- Society with/out organs / Niels Albertsen and Bülent Diken -- Deleuzian social ontology and assemblage theory / Manuel DeLanda.…”
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Capitalism's Future : Alienation, Emancipation and Critique. by Krier, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Capitalism's Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Towards a New Understanding of Critical Theory; 1: Capitalism's Future: Self-Alienation, Self-Emancipation and the Remaking of Critical Theory; Part 2: Capitalism's Future and the Critique of Political Economy; 2: Beyond Left Liberalism: A Critical Look at Proposals to Reform the Capital/Wage Labor Relation; 3: Left Thatcherism: Recent Critical Theory and Post-Marxism(s) in the Light of Marxian Social Ontology.…”
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Weber and Durkheim : a Methodological Comparison. by Jensen, Henrik

Table of Contents: “…; 2 Analysing Protestants And Catholics; Durkheim: Protestants, Catholics -- and suicide; Weber: Protestants, Catholics -- and capitalism; 3 'Social Ontology'; Weber: a chaos perception; Durkheim: a cosmos perception; 4 Epistemology; Durkheim: inductivism; Weber: neo-Kantianism; 5 Science and Values.…”
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What white looks like : African-American philosophers on the whiteness question

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Fragments of a social ontology of whiteness / George Yancy -- Racial exploitation and the wages of whiteness / Charles W. …”
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Hegel's metaphysics and the philosophy of politics

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The Relation of Hegel's Metaphysics and Political Theory -- 1 The Course of God: Reading Hegel -- 2 The Metaphysic of Spirit and Hegel's Philosophy of Politics -- 3 Speculative Logic as Practical Philosophy: Political Life in Times of Crisis -- 4 Metaphysics and the Poverty of Liberal-Positivist Political Thought -- Part II Ontology, Metaphysics and Practical Reason -- 5 The Metaphysical Infrastructure of Hegel's Practical Philosophy -- 6 The Metaphysics of Rational Action: Kantian and Aristotelian Themes in Hegel's Absolute Idealism -- 7 Against the Post-Kantian Interpretation of Hegel: A Study in Proto-Marxist Metaphysics -- 8 Objective Spirit: Hegel's Normative Social Ontology -- Part III Metaphysics, History and the Structures of Ethical Life -- 9 Family Structures as Fields of Historical Tension: A Case Study in the Relation of Metaphysics and Politics -- 10 Hegel's Metaphysics of Marriage: Teleology, Ontology and Sexually Embodied Freedom in the Philosophy of Right's Account of the Family -- 11 Tiger Stripes and Embodied Systems: Hegel on Markets and Models -- 12 Hegel and the End of a Particular Historical Development -- List of Contributors -- Index.…”
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Social interaction and the development of knowledge

Table of Contents: “…Amin and Jaan Valsiner -- The social ontology of persons / Mark H. Bickhard -- The development and overcoming of "universal pragmatics" in Piaget's thinking / Rainer Döbert -- A bridge too far : on the relations between moral and secular reasoning / Bryan W. …”
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Creations of the mind : theories of artifacts and their representation

Table of Contents: “…Social ontology and the philosophy of society / John R. …”
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Life after God : an encounter with postmodernism. by Bevir, Mark

Table of Contents: “…2 Surrealists and Others -- 3 Postmodern Radicalism -- 4 Conclusion -- Part 2 Philosophy -- Chapter 5 On Knowledge -- 1 Saussure and Meaning -- 2 Husserl and Truth -- 3 Excursus on Realism -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 On Subjectivity -- 1 Reclaiming Agency -- 2 Reclaiming Intentionality -- 3 Reclaiming Rationality -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 On the Human Sciences -- 1 Interpreting Texts -- 2 Social Ontology -- 3 Social Explanation -- 4 Conclusion -- Part 3 Ethics -- Chapter 8 On Critique -- 1 Historicism -- 2 Genealogy -- 3 Historical Ontology -- 4 Ideology Critique -- 5 Conclusion…”
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Ethical Consumption : a Realist Approach. by Manyukhina, Yana

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Globalizing democracy and human rights by Gould, Carol C.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 1 Hard Questions in Democratic Theory -- Alternative Conceptions of the Relation of Justice and Democracy -- The Requirements of Justice and the Limitation of Democracy -- The Constitutional Circle -- Rights and Reciprocity -- Care and Democratic Community -- Justice, Rights, and Difference -- 2 Two Concepts of Universality and the Problem of Cultural Relativism -- Abstract Universality, Human Beings, and Development -- Concrete Universality and Human Rights -- The Genesis of Intersociative Norms -- Universality and Normative Critique -- PART II DEMOCRACY AND RIGHTS, PERSONALIZED AND PLURALIZED -- 3 Embodied Politics -- Feminist Approaches to the Body -- Views of Embodiment in Political Philosophy -- Embodiment, Agency, and Community -- 4 Racism and Democracy -- Racism and Existing Democratic Frameworks -- Conceptual Connections -- Democracy and Socially Constructed Characteristics: Racial Versus Cultural Identities -- Intercultural Democratic Communities -- Economic Democracy and Racial Divisiveness -- 5 Cultural Identity, Group Rights, and Social Ontology -- Groups as Constituted Entities -- Norms and Ontology -- How to Derive Group Rights from Individual Rights -- Oppressed Groups and Group Rights -- Constraints on Group Rights for Cultural Minorities -- From Separatism to Interculturalism -- Culture and State: Alternative Models -- Nation-States and Culture in the Context of Globalization -- 6 Conceptualizing Women's Human Rights -- Outstanding Theoretical Questions Concerning Women's Rights -- Care and Human Rights -- The Public-Private Distinction -- Women's Social and Economic Rights -- The Status of Differentiated Rights for Women -- Traditional Cultures Versus Women's Equality in a Human Rights Framework -- PART III GLOBALIZING DEMOCRACY IN A HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK -- 7 Evaluating the Claims for Global Democracy -- Globalization and Democracy -- Models of Global or Cosmopolitan Democracy -- Some Implications for Cosmopolitical Democracy -- 8 Are Democracy and Human Rights Compatible in the Context of Globalization? …”
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An ethical modernity? : Hegel's concept of ethical life today by Chotaš, Jiří, 1964-, Matějčková, Tereza, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…-- 2 The Essays -- Abbreviations of Hegel's Works -- References -- Chapter 1 The Authority of Conceptual Analysis in Hegelian Ethical Life -- 1 Introduction1 -- 2 Modern Ethical Life as the Realization of the Concept -- 3 Social Ontology and the Objective Authority of Concepts -- 4 "Essentially Contested" Concepts and Intersubjective Authority -- 5 Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References…”
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The lost ethnographies : methodological insights from projects that never were

Table of Contents: “…Knowing Nothing: Beyond the Marked MundaneThe Social Ontology of Nothing; Bracketed Backgrounds, Unseen Scenes; Accomplishing Nothing: Two Courses of Meaningful Social Action; Diving Down: Objects in Deep Water; Invisible Figures; Silent Voices; Empty Vessels; Lessons Learned Through Non-Lives Lost; References; Chapter 6: Flat Claps and Dengue Fever: A Story of Ethnographies Lost and Found in India; Introduction; Flat Claps and Dengue Fever; Lost and Found; Discussion: On Serendipity, Intuition, Mess and Lessons; Lesson One: Good Ethnographers Trust Themselves and Their Intuition…”
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Digital Whoness : Identity, Privacy and Freedom in the Cyberworld. by Eldred, Michael

Table of Contents: “…1.11.1 Arendt's discovery of the plurality of whos in The Human Condition1.11.2 The question concerning whoness as the key question of social ontology; 1.11.3 The untenability of the distinction between labour, work and action; 1.11.4 Whoness and the gainful game; 1.11.5 Public and private realms?…”
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Sociable robots and the future of social relations : proceedings of Robo-Philosophy 2014

Table of Contents: “…Conceptions of Embodiment and Their Implications for Social Human-Robot Interaction / Felix Lindner / Carola Eschenbach -- Perceptible Agency, Shared Affordances and Robot Interactions / Tom Ziemke / Serge Thill -- Social Meta-Learning: Learning How to Make Use of Others as a Resource for Learning / Maria Brincker -- Shaping Robotic Minds / Jedediah W.P. Allen -- 3. Social Ontology / Victor Fernández Castro -- Robot Sociality: Genuine or Simulation? …”
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A new philosophy of society : assemblage theory and social complexity by De Landa, Manuel

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The sociogony : social facts and the ontology of objects, things, and monsters by Worrell, Mark P.

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Blackness Visible : Essays on Philosophy and Race. by Mills, Charles W.

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