Index
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(2021), "Index", Dahms, H.F. (Ed.) Society in Flux (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 37), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 219-223. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0278-120420210000037008
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INDEX
Ad infinitum
, 92
Administered worlds
, 6–7, 28, 39–40
Adorno, Theodor W.
, 4
Affirmative approaches
, 90
AGIL scheme
, 200
Alienation as self-generated domination
, 95–96
Alternative communications
, 181–185
American environmental sociology
, 91
American sociology
, 163, 176
Anonymous processes
, 43–44
Anti-immigrant right-wing populism
, 160
Apparent gap
, 160
Appearance (Erscheinung)
, 67–68
of perception
, 203–206
Artificial intelligence (AI)
, 35–36
Authoritarian personalities
, 6–7, 28, 39–40
Autonomy of individual
, 5
Autopoietic period
, 201–208
appearance of perception
, 203–206
consciousness
, 206–208
operation of psychic system
, 201–203
Autopoietic systems theory
, 194
Benjamin, Walter
, 4
Biodiversity loss
, 90
Bourdieu, Pierre
, 126
Bureaucratic predictability
, 8–9
Capital
, 100–102
accumulation
, 7–9
induced planetary degradation
, 90
in ToP theory
, 93–94
Capitalism
, 7–8, 97
Class pride
, 121–122
Classical critical theory
, 9
Climate justice movement
, 106
Cloud Atlas
, 11–12
Coemerging
, 6–7
Cognitive economy
, 69–70
Commodity fetishism
, 7–8
Commodity-determined labor, double character of
, 97–98
Communication
, 170–172
Comte, Auguste
, 138
deconstructing Comte’s founding narrative
, 139–143
describing subject matter, describing self
, 142–143
new science for new subject matter
, 139–142
Conscience
, 198–200
Conscious
, 208
Consciousness
, 194, 198, 200, 206, 208
Constitutional logic
, 21
of modern society
, 8–11, 46, 48
Consumerism
, 7–8
Contemporary ecological crisis
, 90
Contemporary environmentalism
, 105–106
Crisis of democracy
, 5–6
Critical social theories
, 7
Critical theory
, 4, 14, 18, 23, 60, 63, 163
Frankfurt and Cornelius
, 61–63
Horkheimer’s work
, 63–77
mainstreaming of
, 23–28
of modern capitalist society
, 90
myth of Freud
, 60–61
Criticism
, 138
Critique political economy
, 93–94
Culture industry
, 9
De facto principles
, 12
Deliberative democracy
, 164
Democracy
, 5
Democratic forms of governance
, 5
Dialectic of Enlightenment
, 15–16
Dialectic of transformation and reconstitution
, 102–105
Differentiation
, 8–9, 170, 172
Distinctive theory
, 130–132
Domestication of Marx’s critique
, 93–94
Double character of commodity-determined labor
, 97–98
Dual crisis of labor and environment
, 100–102
Durkheim, Émile
, 7–8, 139, 162–163
Ecological modernization theory
, 90
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
, 95
Economic prosperity
, 8–9
Eigengesetzlichkeit
, 21
Encyclopedic law
, 141–142
Enlightenment
, 7–8, 161, 165
sociological knowledge and
, 165–167
Environmental sociology
, 91
Erfahrung
, 196–197
Erleben
, 196–197
European Enlightenment
, 161
Evolution
, 170–172
theory
, 146
Fascism
, 114
Figurative sociology
, 149
Financial debt
, 35–36
Financialization
, 105–106
“Founding fathers”
, 138
Founding figures
historical contextualization
, 147–148
reconstructing
, 147–150
sociological
, 148–150
Frankfurt School
, 4, 6
critical theorizing
, 12–13
early Frankfurt School
, 13, 18, 23
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F. A. Z.)
, 29–30
Fromm, Erich
, 4
Geiger, Theodor
, 114–115
General interest of society
, 4
German Revolution (1918)
, 13–14
Gestalt psychology
, 60, 71–72
Gestalt school
, 61
Gestalt theory
, 60–63
Frankfurt and Cornelius
, 61–63
myth of Freud
, 60–61
Global warming
, 90
Gravity of sociohistorical circumstances
, 18–23
Great Depression
, 4
Great man theory
, 144
Grundrisse
, 97
Habermas, Jürgen
, 163
Hegelian version of Marxism
, 60
Heteronomy
, 6–7
disconcerting challenge of
, 7–9
Heteroreference
, 206–207
Historical materialism
, 14–15
Homo oeconomicus
, 180–181
Horkheimer, Max
, 4, 60
analysis
, 65–67
and development of critical theory
, 70–71
Hegel and return to Productive Imagination
, 73
on imagination
, 75–77
Kant’s mediators
, 64–65
Marcuse’s imagination
, 73–75
objective reason
, 71–73
organism and Gestalt
, 67–70
work
, 63–77
Humanness
, 95
Identity-thinking
, 17–18
Imagination
, 69
Horkheimer on imagination
, 75–77
Marcuse’s imagination
, 73–75
In-conscious
, 208
Individual-modern society
, 8–9
Individuality
, 146
Intentionality
, 206–207
Italian fascism
, 4
Kant’s theory of judgment
, 60
Kantian philosophy
, 9
Kantian-Habermasian
, 164
view of sociological enlightenment
, 175–176
Labor efficiency
, 8–9
Land degradation
, 90
Language
, 194–195
Law of value
, 105
Lebensphilosophie
, 72
Lederer, Emil
, 114
Neuer Mittelstand theory in light of some recent developments in stratification theory
, 122–130
theory of Neuer Mittelstand
, 120–122
Legitimacy
, 13–14
Life termination
, 6–7
Logic of capital
, 18, 21, 23
Lowenthal, Leo
, 4
Luhmann, Niklas
, 167
critiques of sociology
, 160–161, 172, 177
theory of society
, 167, 170, 172
Marcuse, Herbert
, 60
imagination
, 73–75
Marx’s critical theory
, 94, 105–106
capital
, 100–102
dialectic of transformation and reconstitution
, 102–105
double character of commodity-determined labor
, 97–98
nature of contradiction
, 98
social practice and social mediation
, 95–96
treadmill of production of value
, 98–100
Marx’s critique of political economy
, 93–94
Marxian critical theory framework
, 105
Marxian theory
, 21–22
Marxism
, 60
Marxist-oriented environmental sociology
, 90
Material wealth
, 98
Mittelstandsklassen
, 115
Modern age
, 7–8
Modern society
, 5–7
constitutional logic of
, 46–48
origin and vanishing point of
, 41–45
reality of
, 7–8
social theory of
, 6–7
Modern stratification theory
, 114
Modernity
, 161–162
Modernization processes
, 15, 161–162
Multiple forms
, 6–7
Natural resource depletion
, 90
Nazism
, 114
Neo-Kantianism
, 63
“Neoliberal” capitalism
, 105–106
Neoliberalism
, 105–106
Neuer Mittelstand
, 116
Emil Lederer’s theory of
, 120–122
theory in stratification theory
, 122–130
Weber, Geiger, And Tönnies on
, 114–119
New Left appropriation of Marx
, 90
New Middle Class
distinctive theory
, 130–132
Emil Lederer’s Neuer Mittelstand theory in stratification theory
, 122–130
Emil Lederer’s theory of Neuer Mittelstand
, 120–122
theory of
, 114
Weber, Geiger, And Tönnies on “Neuer Mittelstand”
, 114–119
Nonhuman heteronomy
, 7–8
Nonidentity
, 17–18
Normalcy
, 10–11
Onion, The
, 165
Operation of psychic system
, 201–203
Order
, 9–10
Originality
, 146
Other-directedness
, 9
Overcoming capitalism
, 106
Perception, appearance of
, 203–206
Personal system
, 194, 198, 201
Personality
, 198–200
Political economy
, 90, 93–94
Pollock, Friedrich
, 4
Populism
, 128
Positivism
, 140, 162
“Positivist” approaches
, 21–22
Postone, Moishe
, 30, 90, 93–106, 173
Preautopoietic period
, 198–201
Productive imagination
, 60
Hegel and return to
, 73
Productivism
, 106
Proletarianization process
, 116–117
Protestant ethic
, 7–8
Psychic element
, 195
Psychic in Luhmann’s theory
autopoietic period
, 201–208
preautopoietic period
, 198–201
Psychic systems
, 194
operation
, 201–203
Public sphere
, 34
Qua modern capitalism
, 19
Rackets
, 6–7, 28, 36, 39–40
Radical heteronomy
, 41–45
“Radical” approach
, 138
Rationalization
, 8–9
Reality
, 69
Reliability
, 8–9
Republican forms of governance
, 5
Rule of law
, 5
Russian Revolution (1917)
, 13–14
Sanctity
, 5
Schematism
, 76
Science of society
, 139
Self-descriptions
, 7, 10, 160
of modern societies
, 34
Self-generated domination, alienation as
, 95–96
Self-reference
, 206–207
Social change process
, 12, 160
Social class
, 114–115
Social degradation
, 160
Social evolution
, 181–185
Social justice
, 160–161, 165, 181, 185
Social mediation
, 95–96
Social practice
, 95–96
Social stratification
, 114–115
Social system
, 194
Social theory. See also Critical theory
, 5–6, 138–139
disconcerting challenge of heteronomy
, 7–9
early Frankfurt School
, 13, 18, 23
Frankfurt School
, 4
mainstreaming of critical theory
, 23–28
of modern society
, 6–7
origin and vanishing point of modern society
, 41–45
rackets, authoritarian personalities, and administered worlds
, 28–40
terrifying prospect of vitacide
, 9–13
Society, Luhmann’s theory of
, 167, 170, 172
Sociological enlightenment
, 173–174
Sociological errors
, 167–170
Sociological founding figures
, 148–150
Sociological imagination
, 163
Sociological knowledge and enlightenment
, 165–167
Sociology
, 138, 160
deconstructing Comte’s founding narrative
, 139–143
deconstructing Spencer’s founding narrative
, 143–147
figuring alternative narratives
, 150–152
Luhmann’s critiques of
, 160–161, 172, 177
Luhmann’s theory of society
, 167, 170, 172
reconstructing founding figures
, 147–150
social justice, alternative communications, and social evolution
, 181–185
social justice, enlightenment and
, 161–165
sociological knowledge and enlightenment
, 165–167
from sociological to social theory
, 138–139
structural critique in classroom, conference, and journal
, 177–181
Species extinction
, 90
Spencer, Herbert
, 138
“A Natural History of Myself”
, 145–147
deconstructing Spencer’s founding narrative
, 143–147
studying evolution of the social aggregate
, 143–145
Stratification theory
, 122–130
System of personality
, 194, 198, 201
Systems theory
, 167
Technocracy
, 128–129
Theory of society
, 160, 167, 170, 172, 194–195
Thing (Ding)
, 67–68
Thought
, 201–203
Tönnies, Ferdinand
, 114
Treadmill of production (ToP)
, 91, 94
domestication of Marx’s critique
, 93–94
Marx’s critical theory reconsidered
, 94–105
neoliberalism and contemporary environmentalism
, 105–106
of value
, 98–100
Tribalism
, 43
Unabridged dialectical logic
, 17
University of Frankfurt
, 61
“Value-free” sociology
, 162–163
Values
, 8–9, 91
as continual necessity of present
, 102–105
treadmill of production of
, 93–94, 98, 100
wealth vs.
, 98
Vermittlungsprobleme
, 62
Vitacide
, 6–7, 41, 45
terrifying prospect of
, 9–13
Water pollution
, 90
Wealth
, 91
value vs.
, 98
Weber, Max
, 114, 139, 162–163
Weimar Sociology
, 116
White-collar employees
, 115
White-collar workers
, 117
World War II (WWII)
, 91
- Prelims
- Part I A Programmatic Introduction Revisited (and Updated)
- Social Theory's Burden: From Heteronomy to Vitacide (or, How Classical Critical Theory Predicted Proliferating Rackets, Authoritarian Personalities, and Administered Worlds in the Twenty-first Century)
- Part II Critical Theory
- Critical Theory, the Imagination, and the Critique of Judgment: Horkheimer's Vision Reconsidered
- Marx, Critical Theory, and the Treadmill of Production of Value: Why Environmental Sociology Needs a Critique of Capital
- Part III Classical Theory
- Emil Lederer's Theory of the New Middle Class: Historical and Current Relevance of a Key Sociological Concept
- Figuring the Beginning: Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer as Founding Figures of Sociology
- Part IV Systems Theory
- Sociology as Social System: Luhmann, Enlightenment, and the Gap between “Facts” and “Norms”
- Give Me an Operation and I Will Give You a System: The Psychic in Luhmann's Theory
- About the Contributors
- Index