Alexander, Jeffrey

The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)/ - 2014.

Chapter 1|8 pages
Prolegomena. General Theoretical Argument as Interpretation: The Critical Role of “Readings”

Part One Collective Order and the Ambiguity about Action

Chapter 2|30 pages
Marx’s First Phase (1): From Moral Criticism to External Necessity

Chapter 3|34 pages
Marx’s First Phase (2): The Attack on Moral Criticism and the Origins of a Historical Materialism

Chapter 4|44 pages
Durkheim’s First Phase (1): The Ambiguous Transition from Voluntary Morality to Morality as External Constraint

Chapter 5|42 pages
Durkheim’s First Phase (2): The Division of Labor in Society as the Attempt to Reconcile Instrumental Order with Freedom


Part Two Two Different Paths to Collective Order

Chapter 6|48 pages
Marx’s Later Writings: The Elegant Apotheosis of Instrumental Control

Chapter 7|48 pages
Durkheim’s Later Writings (1): The Transition to Morality as a Spiritual Force

Chapter 8|38 pages
Durkheim’s Later Writings (2): The Religious Model and the Idealist Theory of Society

Part Three One-Dimensional Theory and Its Discontents

Chapter 9|29 pages
Equivocation and Revision in the Classical Theory of Sociological Idealism: Durkheim and “Durkheimianism”

Chapter 10|43 pages
Equivocation and Revision in the Classical Theory of Sociological Materialism: Marx and “Marxism”


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