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Introduction | p. 11 |
The Programmatic Orientation Toward Science | p. 27 |
“The Mastery of Man over Nature” | p. 27 |
Behaviourists and Weberians | p. 30 |
Mannheim's “Scientific Sociology of Culture” | p. 32 |
The Structural Links of Science-Oriented Ideology | p. 34 |
The General Tendency to Formalism | p. 37 |
Formalism and Conflictuality | p. 37 |
The Structural Affinity of Practical and Intellectual Inversions | p. 45 |
Reconciliation of Irrational Forms | p. 47 |
Formal/Reductive Homogenization and Universal Value-Equation | p. 51 |
The Social Substance of Operational Rationality | p. 53 |
The Concept of Nature as a Dehistoricized Formal Abstraction | p. 56 |
“Formal Rationality” and Substantive Irrationality | p. 61 |
The Standpoint of Isolated Individuality | p. 67 |
Individualistic Conceptions of Conflict and Human Nature | p. 67 |
The Elevation of Particularity to the Status of Universality | p. 70 |
The Inversion of Objective Structural Relationships | p. 73 |
Negative Determination of Philosophy and Social Theory | p. 79 |
Substance, Subjectivity, and Freedom | p. 79 |
The Positive Aspect of Critical Negation | p. 82 |
The Quantification of Quality and the Law of Measure | p. 83 |
Second Order “Mediations of the Mediation” and the Triumph of Negativity | p. 88 |
Reconciliatory Function of “Negativity as Self-Transcending Contradiction” | p. 90 |
Negativity in Sartre and Marcuse: Dependency on the Ideologically Dominant Discourse | p. 95 |
The Rise and Fall of Historical Temporality | p. 101 |
Historical Explanation in Ancient Greece and in the Middle Ages | p. 101 |
“Divine Providence” in Bourgeois Philosophies of History | p. 103 |
Vico's Conception of Civil Society and History | p. 108 |
Organic Models as Substitutes for Historical Explanation | p. 111 |
Vicissitudes of Historical Consciousness in the Twentieth Century | p. 114 |
“There Is Neither Necessity nor Meaning” | p. 119 |
“If Sense There Be, It Escapes Our Perception”: From Ranke and Tocqueville to Sir Lewis Namier and Beyond | p. 132 |
Social Antagonism and Historical Explanation | p. 136 |
Dualism and Dichotomies in Philosophy and Social Theories | p. 149 |
The Hidden Premises of Dichotomous Systems | p. 149 |
The Functional Imperative of Operational Exclusiveness | p. 151 |
Ruling Values Disguised as Instrumental Complexes: The Illusions of Value-Free Functionality | p. 155 |
Ideological Roots of Methodological Dualism | p. 159 |
The Inward-Oriented Subject of Philosophical Discourse | p. 162 |
From “Unreconciled Dualism” to Dualism of Reconciliation | p. 165 |
Moralizing Apriorism in the Service of the “Commercial Spirit” | p. 170 |
The Dominance of Counter-Value in Antinomous Value-Relations | p. 175 |
The Supersession of Dichotomies: The Question of Social Agency | p. 186 |
The Postulates of “Unity” and “Universality” | p. 205 |
The Incorrigible Circularity and Ultimate Failure of Individualistic Mediation | p. 205 |
“The Process of the Genus with the Individual”: The Reconciliatory Function of Anthropological Models | p. 216 |
Fragmentation and “Longing for Unity” | p. 232 |
“The Ideal General Will Should Also Be the Empirically General Will” | p. 251 |
Unification through the Material Reproduction Process | p. 261 |
Method in a Historical Epoch of Transition | p. 277 |
The Marxian Reorientation of Method | p. 277 |
From Hegel's “Science of Logic” to the Marxian View of Science | p. 298 |
The Critique of Political Economy | p. 317 |
Self-Critique as a Methodological Principle | p. 332 |
Categorical Reflections of Social Antagonism and the Central Categories of Socialist Theory | p. 353 |
Methodological Aspects of Mediation in an Epoch of Transition | p. 394 |
Index | p. 451 |
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