Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm is chair and professor of religion and chair of science and technology studies at Williams College. He is the author of The Invention of Religion in Japan and The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Storm has produced an ambitious, truly thought-provoking and innovative project, to be sure. . . . Storm always writes as clearly as possible given the undeniably complex subject matter; nowhere will readers find the sort of purposefully obscure prose for which philosophers such as Derrida were famous for."

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Texts and CitationsOpening0.1-Into the Abyss: Postmodernism Unraveling0.2-Overview of the WorkPart I. Metarealism1-How the Real World Became a Fable, or The Realities of Social Construction1.1-Realism as Scientism1.2-Varieties of Mind-Dependence1.3-When Realism Becomes Antirealism and the Reverse1.4-Apocalyptic Realism and the Human Sciences, or Real as Socially Constructed1.5-Metarealism: Modes of the Real1.6-Conclusion: Modes of Reality; Modes of ExistencePart II. Process Social Ontology2-Concepts in Disintegration & Strategies for Demolition2.1-The End of Religion2.2-The End of Art2.3-Strategies for Demolition2.3.1-Immanent Critique2.3.2-Relativizing Critique2.3.3-Ethical Critique2.4-Family-Resemblance, Polythetic Concepts, and Other Category Errors2.5-Conclusion: Legitimation Crisis3-Process Social Ontology3.1-A World in Motion3.2-Natural Kinds3.3-Process Social Kinds: A First Pass3.4-Conclusion: Beyond Anti-Essentialism4-Social Kinds4.1-Homeostatic Property-Cluster Kinds4.2-A Process-Cluster Account of Social Kinds4.2.1-Socially Constructed4.2.2-Dynamic Clusters of Powers4.2.3-Causal Processes that Anchor Clusters4.3-Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Kinds4.4-Conclusion: Changing the Social WorldPart III. Hylosemiotics5-Hylosemiotics: The Discourse of Things5.1-Beyond the Linguistic Turn5.2-A Minimal Metaontology5.3-The Meanings of Meaning5.4-The Lion’s Roar: A Brief Excursion on the Possibilities of Translation5.5-A Hylosemiotics of Sign-Aspects5.6-The Mind Turned Inside Out5.7-Conclusion: A Light in the AbyssPart IV. Knowledge and Value6-Zetetic Knowledge6.1-Doubting Doubt6.2-Knowledge without Certainty6.3-Zetetic Abduction and Prediction: Inference Beyond Pattern Recognition6.4-Conclusion: From Skeptical Dogmatism to Emancipatory Zeteticism7-The Revaluation of Values7.1-The Values of Postmodernism7.2-The Value of Value-Free Social Science7.3-Illusions of Fact and Value: Overcoming the Is-Ought Distinction7.4-The Human Sciences as a Way of Life7.5-Revolutionary Happiness: Critical Virtue Ethics7.6-Conclusion8-Conclusion: Becoming MetamodernNotesIndex

Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm is chair and professor of religion and chair of science and technology studies at Williams College. He is the author of The Invention of Religion in Japan and The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Storm has produced an ambitious, truly thought-provoking and innovative project, to be sure. . . . Storm always writes as clearly as possible given the undeniably complex subject matter; nowhere will readers find the sort of purposefully obscure prose for which philosophers such as Derrida were famous for."

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Texts and CitationsOpening0.1-Into the Abyss: Postmodernism Unraveling0.2-Overview of the WorkPart I. Metarealism1-How the Real World Became a Fable, or The Realities of Social Construction1.1-Realism as Scientism1.2-Varieties of Mind-Dependence1.3-When Realism Becomes Antirealism and the Reverse1.4-Apocalyptic Realism and the Human Sciences, or Real as Socially Constructed1.5-Metarealism: Modes of the Real1.6-Conclusion: Modes of Reality; Modes of ExistencePart II. Process Social Ontology2-Concepts in Disintegration & Strategies for Demolition2.1-The End of Religion2.2-The End of Art2.3-Strategies for Demolition2.3.1-Immanent Critique2.3.2-Relativizing Critique2.3.3-Ethical Critique2.4-Family-Resemblance, Polythetic Concepts, and Other Category Errors2.5-Conclusion: Legitimation Crisis3-Process Social Ontology3.1-A World in Motion3.2-Natural Kinds3.3-Process Social Kinds: A First Pass3.4-Conclusion: Beyond Anti-Essentialism4-Social Kinds4.1-Homeostatic Property-Cluster Kinds4.2-A Process-Cluster Account of Social Kinds4.2.1-Socially Constructed4.2.2-Dynamic Clusters of Powers4.2.3-Causal Processes that Anchor Clusters4.3-Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Kinds4.4-Conclusion: Changing the Social WorldPart III. Hylosemiotics5-Hylosemiotics: The Discourse of Things5.1-Beyond the Linguistic Turn5.2-A Minimal Metaontology5.3-The Meanings of Meaning5.4-The Lion’s Roar: A Brief Excursion on the Possibilities of Translation5.5-A Hylosemiotics of Sign-Aspects5.6-The Mind Turned Inside Out5.7-Conclusion: A Light in the AbyssPart IV. Knowledge and Value6-Zetetic Knowledge6.1-Doubting Doubt6.2-Knowledge without Certainty6.3-Zetetic Abduction and Prediction: Inference Beyond Pattern Recognition6.4-Conclusion: From Skeptical Dogmatism to Emancipatory Zeteticism7-The Revaluation of Values7.1-The Values of Postmodernism7.2-The Value of Value-Free Social Science7.3-Illusions of Fact and Value: Overcoming the Is-Ought Distinction7.4-The Human Sciences as a Way of Life7.5-Revolutionary Happiness: Critical Virtue Ethics7.6-Conclusion8-Conclusion: Becoming MetamodernNotesIndex

Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm is chair and professor of religion and chair of science and technology studies at Williams College. He is the author of The Invention of Religion in Japan and The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Storm has produced an ambitious, truly thought-provoking and innovative project, to be sure. . . . Storm always writes as clearly as possible given the undeniably complex subject matter; nowhere will readers find the sort of purposefully obscure prose for which philosophers such as Derrida were famous for."

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Texts and CitationsOpening0.1-Into the Abyss: Postmodernism Unraveling0.2-Overview of the WorkPart I. Metarealism1-How the Real World Became a Fable, or The Realities of Social Construction1.1-Realism as Scientism1.2-Varieties of Mind-Dependence1.3-When Realism Becomes Antirealism and the Reverse1.4-Apocalyptic Realism and the Human Sciences, or Real as Socially Constructed1.5-Metarealism: Modes of the Real1.6-Conclusion: Modes of Reality; Modes of ExistencePart II. Process Social Ontology2-Concepts in Disintegration & Strategies for Demolition2.1-The End of Religion2.2-The End of Art2.3-Strategies for Demolition2.3.1-Immanent Critique2.3.2-Relativizing Critique2.3.3-Ethical Critique2.4-Family-Resemblance, Polythetic Concepts, and Other Category Errors2.5-Conclusion: Legitimation Crisis3-Process Social Ontology3.1-A World in Motion3.2-Natural Kinds3.3-Process Social Kinds: A First Pass3.4-Conclusion: Beyond Anti-Essentialism4-Social Kinds4.1-Homeostatic Property-Cluster Kinds4.2-A Process-Cluster Account of Social Kinds4.2.1-Socially Constructed4.2.2-Dynamic Clusters of Powers4.2.3-Causal Processes that Anchor Clusters4.3-Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Kinds4.4-Conclusion: Changing the Social WorldPart III. Hylosemiotics5-Hylosemiotics: The Discourse of Things5.1-Beyond the Linguistic Turn5.2-A Minimal Metaontology5.3-The Meanings of Meaning5.4-The Lion’s Roar: A Brief Excursion on the Possibilities of Translation5.5-A Hylosemiotics of Sign-Aspects5.6-The Mind Turned Inside Out5.7-Conclusion: A Light in the AbyssPart IV. Knowledge and Value6-Zetetic Knowledge6.1-Doubting Doubt6.2-Knowledge without Certainty6.3-Zetetic Abduction and Prediction: Inference Beyond Pattern Recognition6.4-Conclusion: From Skeptical Dogmatism to Emancipatory Zeteticism7-The Revaluation of Values7.1-The Values of Postmodernism7.2-The Value of Value-Free Social Science7.3-Illusions of Fact and Value: Overcoming the Is-Ought Distinction7.4-The Human Sciences as a Way of Life7.5-Revolutionary Happiness: Critical Virtue Ethics7.6-Conclusion8-Conclusion: Becoming MetamodernNotesIndex