From Society to System
From Society to System presents an overview of sociologist Michel Freitag's (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted and interdisciplinary work. Elaborated within the grand sociological tradition, his…
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From Society to System presents an overview of sociologist Michel Freitag's (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted and interdisciplinary work. Elaborated within the grand sociological tradition, his dialectical sociology redefines sociality as the realm of the symbolic to pinpoint its ontological frailty. Such a perspective, which nevertheless remains realist, expands the borders within of sociology to rejoin classical philosophical preoccupations. If Freitag revisits social ontology, he does so on the basis of a radical critique of contemporary society where not only life and planet earth is at stake as a result of capitalist developments but reflexivity as well.This collection of essays touches on a host of topics that have been of central concern for social theory since the end of the twentieth century: the sempiternal discussion about holism versus individualism