Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Texts and Citations xiii
5. Opening 1
6. Part I. Metarealism
7. 1: How the Real World Became a Fable, or the Realities of Social Construction 29
8. Part II. Process Social Ontology
9. 2: Concepts in Disintegration & Strategies for Demolition 49
10. 3. Process Social Ontology 85
11. 4. Social Kinds 105
12. Part III. Hylosemiotics
13. 5: Hylosemiotics: The Discourse of Things 149
14. Part IV. Knowledge and Value
15. 6. Zetetic Knowledge 209
16. 7. The Revaluation of Values 236
17. 8. Conclusion: Becoming Metamodern 276
18. Notes 287
19. Index 349