Postmarxism's project since its beginning has been about rescuing Marxism from the global collapse of Marxist praxis by rethinking the fundamentalism that marked classical Marxist theory but no longer represents Western politico-social reality. This book aims to develop a 'reflexive sociology' that is informed by, and informs politics.

Table of Contents_____________________________________________________________________________Chapter One: IntroductionWhy The Social?Why Postmarxism?Why Postmarxism and Social capital Chapter Two: From the Social to the PoliticalIntroductionThe Social in Historical MaterialismSetting out a Post- TerrainSociology and The Social in PostmarxismCounter-Positions of The SocialChapter Three: Classical Approaches to The SocialIntroductionThe Sociological project and the Emergence of PositivismKarl Marx: Logic to Contradiction to MediationEmile Durkheim: Moral Positivism and MediationMax Weber: From Rationality to Irrationality as Social MediationChapter Four: Establishing a Basis for PostmarxismIntroductionThe New PriorityThe Social as ‘Sedimentation’ and The Political as ‘Reactivation’Chapter Five: From Antagonism to EquivalenceIntroductionAntagonism as the Limit of Social Objectivity"You Can Only Free Somethings …": Hegemony and The PoliticalHegemony and the Constitution of EquivalenceChapter Six: Finding The Political in Social CapitalIntroductionWhat is Social Capital?Forms of Social CapitalSocial Capital and The PoliticalChapter Seven: Desert - Migration as Social DislocationIntroductionQuantity and Composition of Global MigrationMigration and (Post)IndustrialisationFoundational Approaches to MigrationDefinitional ProblematicsCausation TheoriesContinuation TheoriesPostmarxism and MigrationChapter Eight: Aspiration – Hegemonic Masculinity as EmptinessIntroductionGender Antagonism in the Modernity-Postmodernity TensionThe Emptiness of Hegemonic MasculinityFrom Limit to Hegemony Chapter Nine: The Impossibility of Society Thesis: Some Final ConsiderationsIntroductionMoving Between the Possibility and Impossibility of SocietyTowards Syncretism: A Sociology of Postmarxism

The Sociology of Postmarxism is a pleasure to read, at least for this reader. It combines careful, concise and generic analysis of the relations of marxism, materialism and discourse with an opening up of specific avenues, such as, social capital, migration, and men and masculinities, to the insights of postmarxist approaches in sociology. In so doing, it delivers a profound critique and challenge to Sociology itself, both mainstream and critical, and its mystifications of "society".Jeff Hearn, Örebro University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK