Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Texts and Citations Opening 0.1-Into the Abyss: Postmodernism Unraveling 0.2-Overview of the Work Part I. Metarealism 1-How the Real World Became a Fable, or The Realities of Social Construction 1.1-Realism as Scientism 1.2-Varieties of Mind-Dependence 1.3-When Realism Becomes Antirealism and the Reverse 1.4-Apocalyptic Realism and the Human Sciences, or Real as Socially Constructed 1.
5-Metarealism: Modes of the Real 1.6-Conclusion: Modes of Reality; Modes of Existence Part II. Process Social Ontology 2-Concepts in Disintegration & Strategies for Demolition 2.1-The End of Religion 2.2-The End of Art 2.3-Strategies for Demolition 2.3.1-Immanent Critique 2.
3.2-Relativizing Critique 2.3.3-Ethical Critique 2.4-Family-Resemblance, Polythetic Concepts, and Other Category Errors 2.5-Conclusion: Legitimation Crisis 3-Process Social Ontology 3.1-A World in Motion 3.2-Natural Kinds 3.
3-Process Social Kinds: A First Pass 3.4-Conclusion: Beyond Anti-Essentialism 4-Social Kinds 4.1-Homeostatic Property-Cluster Kinds 4.2-A Process-Cluster Account of Social Kinds 4.2.1-Socially Constructed 4.2.2-Dynamic Clusters of Powers 4.
2.3-Causal Processes that Anchor Clusters 4.3-Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Kinds 4.4-Conclusion: Changing the Social World Part III. Hylosemiotics 5-Hylosemiotics: The Discourse of Things 5.1-Beyond the Linguistic Turn 5.2-A Minimal Metaontology 5.3-The Meanings of Meaning 5.
4-The Lion's Roar: A Brief Excursion on the Possibilities of Translation 5.5-A Hylosemiotics of Sign-Aspects 5.6-The Mind Turned Inside Out 5.7-Conclusion: A Light in the Abyss Part IV. Knowledge and Value 6-Zetetic Knowledge 6.1-Doubting Doubt 6.2-Knowledge without Certainty 6.3-Zetetic Abduction and Prediction: Inference Beyond Pattern Recognition 6.
4-Conclusion: From Skeptical Dogmatism to Emancipatory Zeteticism 7-The Revaluation of Values 7.1-The Values of Postmodernism 7.2-The Value of Value-Free Social Science 7.3-Illusions of Fact and Value: Overcoming the Is-Ought Distinction 7.4-The Human Sciences as a Way of Life 7.5-Revolutionary Happiness: Critical Virtue Ethics 7.6-Conclusion 8-Conclusion: Becoming Metamodern Notes Index.