1st Edition
Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences
- Introduction to the predicament
- Language and metaphysics: outline of a radical critique
- Realism, anti-realism and the enigmatic status of truth
- De-naturalizing the ontological discourse
- Socialising metaphysics
- Tracing and reappraising the imaginary
- The ontogenetic model of the constitution of social forms
- Sociologising metaphysics
- Conclusion
References
Biography
Christoforos Bouzanis is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His main research interest lies in the interrelations between philosophy and the social sciences. He has published in journals of social science such as Sociological Theory, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, History of the Human Sciences and Human Studies.
"This is a fascinating (though sometimes obscure) book that casts new light onto the important relationship between ontology and social ontology and then uses the insights this produces to advocate what Bouzanis calls an anti-realist ontology of the social." - Dave Elder-Vass, Innovation in the Social Sciences
