Post-Philosophical Sociology : Eliasian Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge (Paperback)

Introduction: The Greatness of Sociology  Part One ? Figurational-Process Sociology: Synthesis and Vocation  Chapter 1 The Dawn of Detachment: Norbert Elias and Sociology’s Two Tracks  Chapter 2 Karl Marx: New Perspectives  Chapter 3 Norbert Elias’s Post-Philosophical Sociology: From "Critique"to Relative Detachment  Chapter 4 How Has a Post-Philosophical Sociology Become Possible?  Chapter 5 From Distance to Detachment: Knowledge and Self-knowledge in Elias’s Theory of Involvement and Detachment  Part Two ? Overcritique or Social Diagnosis?  Chapter 6 Critique and Overcritique in Sociology  Chapter 7 Overcritique and Ambiguity in Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology: A Long-Term Perspective  Chapter 8 Narcissism or Informalization? Christopher Lasch, Norbert Elias and Social Diagnosis  Chapter 9 Informalization, Sociological Theory and Social Diagnosis  Addendum: On The Process of Becoming a Sociologist