Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Preface vii
5. 1 Introduction 1
6. 2 The well-planned reorganization of society: Auguste Comte 20
7. 3 If you can’t beat democracy, join it: Alexis de Tocqueville 45
8. 4 Pariahs of the world, unite! Flora Tristan 68
9. 5 Capitalist modernity is the real savagery: Karl Marx 85
10. 6 The conflict of community and society: Ferdinand Tönnies 118
11. 7 There is some Thing out there: Emile Durkheim 139
12. 8 The double-consciousness: W. E. B. Du Bois 159
13. 9 From good to bad capitalism and back: Max Weber 191
14. 10 Strangers who are from here: Georg Simmel 215
15. 11 Love, marriage and patriarchy: Marianne Weber 229
16. 12 Critical versus traditional theory: Max Horkheimer 242
17. 13 What is a woman, and who is asking anyway? Simone de Beauvoir 285
18. 14 Society as mediation: Theodor W. Adorno 311
19. Recommendations for further reading 333
20. Index 341