What is social theory? total destruction, bead lust, and other unreasonable social things
The impossible reasons of modern civilizations
Social theory and modernity's unthinkable
Social violence as the bead lust of the unthinkable
Five ways to skin a cat: modernity's five riddles
Unthinkable social things : five solutions to the riddle of the defiant darkness, 1848-1914
Revolutionary reasons: Karl Marx and the melting pot of solid modernity
Rationality's double-bind: Max Weber and modernity's threat to the human spirit
The reasonable hope of a social bond: Émile Durkheim and modern man's trouble with conflict
Perverse reasons: Sigmund Freud and the discontents of conscious life
Unreasonable differences: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the logic of the feminist standpoint
The exiled others think the unthinkable: the classic solutions encounter differences and possibilities
Unthinkable variations on the classic riddles: W.E.B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, Georg Simmel, and Ferdinand de Saussure
Beyond the double-bind: W.E.B. du Bois and the gift of second-sight
A revolutionary social bond: Anna Julia Cooper and the colored woman's office
The strange social benefits of conflict: Georg Simmel and modern wandering
The social structure of meanings: Ferdinand de Saussure and the arbitrary sign
Violence, war, and the short twentieth century, 1914-1991
The unfolding of social theory in the unraveling of the twentieth century into the twenty-first
Bibliographic essay and other acknowledgments
