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Acknowledgements

Preface

Why a theory about social sciences?

Chapter A The world's social in social science thinking

Social sciences detect the world's social beyond the national biotopes…

…by assembling theories about nation state social biotopes….

…off-thinking the world's social…

… reflected on through the nation state constructs

…ever critically measured against idealized nation state rationales

The universalization of social science thinking…...

….completing the globalization of social science theorizing as a multiplicity of scientific patriotisms

From Marx to Heidegger: Critical theorizing in the anti-colonial movements—self-purified for constructive imperial nation state views

…opposing a monopoly on spatiological thought in the "centres"

…. liberating global social thought from scientificy for creating patriotic theories

… and anti-scientificy to practice global social sciences

From patriotic to imperial social science thinking

Nationalism: A service for imperial social science theorizing

…thought back by alternative imperial social science models

...critiquing an unequal knowledge imperialism

The world's nation states serving the world's mankind

Chapter BCategorical essentials of disciplinary thinking Unlike the distinction among the social sciences into disciplines, the distinction between social science and natural sciences is a matter of the object of theorizing. Their division, however, is due to the view the state gained on both sciences to separate them: It is the very same instrumentalism of this utilitarian view on the society and the nature, using both for the purposes of the privates, that results in rationale natural sciences and in the idealization of the society of privates presenting the society as a means for the privates in their categorical essentials, the ideas about the homo economicus and politicus, as a means for pursuing the interests of the private property owners as the nature as a means for pursuing these interests.

The cognitive architecture of disciplinary thinking These reflections about disciplinary thinking focus on the classical social science disciplines, that is on anthropology, economics, sociology, political sciences and psychology.

Essential concepts founding theorizing in the classical social science disciplines

Anthropology—Regimen as the demand of man's nature

From anthropological thinking to cultural theories—nation states as cultural artefacts completing man's unfinished nature

Economic thinking in the social sciences—The bane of scarcity

Sociological thinking—The blessing of the "community"

Political theory—political power for the politically disempowered

Psychological thinking—the mythologization of the mind

Essentials of social sciences disciplinary thinking

1. The common cognitive lie founding the categories of disciplinary thinking

2. The shared metaphysical nature of the disciplines and their speculative way of theorizing

3. Disciplinary social thought cannot think other about the social but as an idealized nation state social

4. The categorical essentials: Critically affirmative and idealistically domesticative

5. The world's social in disciplinary thinking—absent

Chapter CThe social science approach to scientific thinking—advancements of teleological theorizing

The social science mode of thinking—cognitive operations of a methodological idealism

Social sciences theorizing about social science thinking

Why teleological thinking must be the nature of thinking

The stigma of the natural sciences—and the self-destruction of an envied hero

The envied hero….

…and his self-destruction

The decline of scientific knowledge towards ephemeral knowledge

Chapter DThe discourse about and the progress of social science knowledge

The discursive creation of acknowledged true knowledge

Paradoxes of acknowledged knowledge in the global social science discourse

Global discourse about acknowledged knowledge ruling social science theorizing

Arguing about the position national knowledge bodies hold

The progress of acknowledged knowledge

How to create a globally shared truth ruling global theorizing

The ephemeral progress of ephemeral knowledge

Chapter EGoing beyond the social sciences

Postscript