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John Levi Martin explores the structures of social theory, the resulting tensions, and their broader significance for sociological thought.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction: The Approach Taken
Part I. From Subordination to Combination: The Consolidation of an Architectonic
I-1. From a Trinity of Faculties to Two Platonic Wings
I-2. From Ideas to Transcendentals
I-3. The Birth of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful
I-4. The Stabilization of the Triad of Faculties
I-5. Imagination and Judgment in Immanuel Kant
I-C. The First Constitutional Moment
Conclusion to Part I. From Ideas to Faculties
Part II. From Combination to Dimensionalization: Adoption and Adaption
II-1. The Battle for the French Mind
II-2. Because I Said So
II-3. The Birth of Values
II-4. History, Individuals, and Concepts
II-5. The Revaluation of Devaluation
II-C. The Second Constitutional Moment
Conclusion to Part II. From Faculties to Values
Part III. From Serialization to Subordination: Rejection and Reformulation
III-1. The Creative Spirit
III-2. Of Laws and Lies
III-3. A Guess at the Riddle
III-4. The Quest for a Unified Science
III-5. Work Resumed on the Tower
III-C. The Third Constitutional Moment
Conclusion to Part III. From Values to Validity
Conclusion
References
Index
About the author
John Levi Martin is the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Social Structures (2011) and The Explanation of Social Action (second edition, 2021), as well as Thinking Through Theory (2014), Thinking Through Methods (2017), and Thinking Through Statistics (2018).
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John Levi Martin explores the structures of social theory, the resulting tensions, and their broader significance for sociological thought.
