The Anthropological Paradox: The Sociology of Knowledge as Perspective of the General Theory of Society (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences)

Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Goals of the treatise
	Perspective of the analysis
	Map of the treatise
	Analytical method
Part 1. The discipline of dialogue
	Chapter 1. Diagnosing sociological theory
		Twofold unstable identity
		Does theory oblige?
		Theory does oblige!
		Tradition does oblige!
		Mosaic of metaphors and categories
		Starting point for further analysis
	Chapter 2. The lasting of sociological theory in the light of neo-Durkheimian sociology of knowledge
		Durkheim as a classic thinker of the sociology of knowledge
		Cognitive foundations of the society
		Knowledge of men – knowledge of objects
		Continuations of Durkheim’s sociology of knowledge
		Mary Douglas’ analytical scheme of “grid & group”
		Science from neo-Durkheimian perspective – the concept of Stephan Fuchs
		Conclusions – completing the diagnosis
Part 2. The anthropological paradox
	Chapter 3. General mechanics of systems according to Niklas Luhmann
	Chapter 4. The Split Man – Concepts of Michel Foucault
		Unwanted vocabulary
		From similitude to representation
		Poisoned well of humanity
	Chapter 5. The anthropological paradox and philosophy
		Three steps towards epistemology (Richard Rorty)
		Conclusions
Part 3. Entanglements and the way out
	Chapter 6. The diversification of theory
		Max Weber
		Émile Durkheim
	Chapter 7. Unification in practice
		Anthony Giddens and Piotr Sztompka: elements of the theory of structuration
		Structuration and the analytic of finitude
		Piotr Sztompka’s theory of society’s emergence
		Pierre Bourdieu
	Chapter 8. The way out of the anthropological paradox
		Initial ascertainments
		Why not realism?
		Why not relativism?
		Escape to the other side of the mirror
	Chapter 9. Main currents in the sociology of scientific knowledge
		The origin of the “actor-network theory” against the sociology of scientific knowledge
		The strong program of the sociology of knowledge
		Program of empirical relativism
		Examining the discourse of science
		Anthropology of laboratory work
	Chapter 10. Actor-network theory arrives at the general theory of society’s perspective and moves away from sociology
		Secrets of laboratories
		The first story
		Translations, transformations, transfers, and inscriptions
		Black boxes – traveling laboratories
		The Great Division
		The second story
		The Constitution of Modernity
		The History of the Constitution
		A-socio-logy
		Critique of the sociology of scientific knowledge
		New vocabulary
		“Action-Network Theory” and sociological theory
Epilogue – the final question
Summary
The question of the price
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