Opening into Opening Personal Opening (2003) 1 This manuscript is dialogical: it is polyphonic. Every essay and numbered theme is both autonomous and interwoven. Any essay can be an entrance. Readers focused on “the crisis of our time” might enter through Plague Notes (p. 146) or Modernity and the Breakdown of this Order of Life […]
A Dream of Reason I. Part 2 Opening through Direct Examination of Foundational Concepts
Opening through Direct Examination of Foundational Concepts Sociology-Psychology In this exploration, sociology is a co-constitutive aspect of a unified “sociology-psychology.”[1] Sociology-psychology is a distinct species of theoretical reason (not a type of science). It will advance inquiry if an integrated discipline proves adequate to the interpretation of its “domain of inquiry,” or if there develops […]
A Dream of Reason I. Part 5 Opening through “The Foundational Disciplinary Anatomy”…
Opening through “The Foundational Disciplinary Anatomy” of Sociology-Psychology[1] (2000) 1.Opening Disciplines are “lenses” … Not glass. Sapient…. Personal-interpersonal. There is a sense in which lenses not only discover but also invent “the world” they explore (without eyes no visual world). Our project is “discipline reconstruction.” We focus on “foundations.” Foundational inquiry is in direct dialogue […]
A Dream of Reason I. Part 6 Methodological Notes on Autonomy and Influence
Opening with Others: Methodological Notes on Autonomy and Influence (2003) 1.Opening 1.1 “The social/behavioral sciences” and the humanities now require that authors comment on all literature that could conceivably “touch on” relevant disciplinary problems.We hold that forced commentary tends to discourage and distort foundational projects. A foundational project, […]
A Dream of Reason II. Some “Constitutional” Concerns and Entering…
II: Some “Constitutional” Concerns Entering through Tension and Resistance: Struggling in the Net (1996) 1.Opening Here we glance at mechanisms through which sociology’s dominant “social scientific” professional identity resists reasonable critique and reconstruction. They include forbidding internal foundational exploration, enforcing a taboo against literary innovation, excluding relevant concerns and talents, focusing obsessively on control, and […]
A Dream of Reason II. Part 2 Entering through Direct Examination of Foundational Concepts
Entering through Direct Examination of Foundational Concepts (1986) 1.Opening We examine some transdisciplinary concepts in their relevance to the reconstruction of sociology-psychology. 2.On the Clarification/Evaluation of “Meaning Constellations” 3.1 Meaning is “the substance” of our life together and apart, not an area within it. The clarification/evaluation of meaning constellations requires mediation between their full existential-historical […]
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