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Philosophy and Sociology

       1960

      Theodor W. Adorno

      Edited by Dirk Braunstein

      Translated by Nicholas Walker

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      Originally published in German as Nachgelassene Schriften. Abteilung IV, Band 6: Philosophie und Soziologie. Herausgegeben von Dirk Braunstein © Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2011

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Overview

       LECTURE

       Are philosophy and sociology mutually incompatible? – Controversy with König and Schelsky (I) – Kant’s influence on phenomenology and ontology – The origins of sociology in Saint-Simon – Psychology in Kant – Against ‘purity’

       LECTURE 2

       Resistance to philosophy on the part of sociology – Comte’s ‘law of the three stages’ (I) – The origins of sociology in France – Order and progress in Comte – The claim to priority on the part of sociology – Freedom of conscience and national sovereignty – Comte’s conception of institutions – Driven towards dialectics – The concept of positivism – First nature and second nature – Political content of Comte’s argument

       LECTURE 3

       Social Darwinism – Emphasis on subjectivity – Demand for systematic immanence in thought – The question of the utility of science – ‘Sociological schizophrenia’ – Priority of the social system (I) – Social compulsion – Sociology and philosophy as a dynamic unity

LECTURE 4

       Comte’s demotion of philosophy – The appeal of positivism – Comte’s nominalism – ‘The law of three stages’ (II) – The pretensions of speculative thought – Controversy with König and Schelsky (II) – Against the demand for intelligibility – Ordinary language and logic

       LECTURE 5

       ‘Chosisme’ (I) – Sociology addresses the constituted – Durkheim’s critique of ‘Ideas’ in Comte – Durkheim’s critique of Comte’s concept of progress (I) – Durkheim’s critique of Comte’s ‘law of the three stages’ – ‘Collective spirit’ as explanation of social phenomena – ‘Chosisme’ (II) – Reification of society

       LECTURE 6

       Concepts and observation – Critical generosity – The category of ‘meaning’ – Priority of the social system (II) – ‘Chosisme’ (III) – The concept of ‘understanding’ – Theory of the unintelligible

       LECTURE 7

       Objective tendency – Mediation between social and individual domains – ‘Chosisme’ (IV) – Durkheim’s critique of Comte’s concept of progress (II) – The dialectic of progress – The violence of progress – The irrationality of rationality – Different modes of mediation in philosophy and sociology

       LECTURE 8

       A pause in the argument – Concepts of ‘philosophy’ and ‘sociology’ operating at different levels – ‘Hyphen-sociologies’ – Sociology as a recent discipline – Sociology and empirical social research – Max Weber’s definition of sociology – Philosophy and facticity – The provincial situation of Germany