Classical Horizons: The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Critique of the Enlightenment and Return to Classical Antiquity	1
Ch. 1	Karl Marx: Athenian Democracy and the Critique of Political Economy	15
	Science and Nature in Democritus and Epicurus	17
	Nature, Praxis, and Social Objectivity	22
	Classical Needs and Neoclassical Aesthetics	25
	Ancient and Modern Democracy	34
	Greek Social Justice and Political Economy in Capital	42
	Rationalization of Production and the Logic of Capital	47
	Greek Physics and Marx's Dialectical Science	51
	Classical Antiquity and the Ancient Mode of Production	59
Ch. 2	Max Weber: Greek Tragedy and the Rationalization of Society	64
	Classical Antiquity and Ancient Capitalism	67
	Capitalism and Democracy in the Greek Polis	72
	Decline of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Modern Capitalism	75
	Nietzsche and the Origins of Greek Tragedy	79
	Existential Nihilism and the Perspectivism of Science	85
	History of Western Science from Plato to the Present	88
	Prophets of Positivism and the Politics of Science	92
	Rationalization and the Eclipse of Reason	99
	Classical Humanism and Historical Economics	103
Ch. 3	Emile Durkheim: Greek Polis and the Solidarity of the Conscience Collective	111
	Aristotle, Montesquieu, and the Foundations of Sociology	113
	Origins of Society in Rousseau and Aristotle	118
	Epistemology and Existentialism in Kant and Schopenhauer	121
	Platonic Rationalism and the Sophistry of Pragmatism	124
	Collective Representations as Social Epistemology	131
	Hellenic Solidarity and Modern Anomie	138
	Classical Pedagogy and Modern Politics	147
	Classical Justice Informing Social Democracy	150
Ch. 4	Awakening Classical Dreams: Synthesis of Ancient Justice and Modern Social Science	157
	Notes	169
	Index	193