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Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History
Antonio, Robert J.
Antonio, Robert J.
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Although a very important figure in interdisciplinary social theory, Nietzsche is absent from sociological theory, especially in the United States. Equating rationalization with cultural homogenization and liquidation of particularity, Nietzsche saw "decadence" where modern social theorists saw progress. He held that sociology drapes cultural domination, regimentation, and exhaustion with the appearance of legitimacy. This essay explores his views about the depletion of social resources stressed in modern theory. It elaborates his "antisociology" and then traces the impact of this framework on three divergent currents of social theory. Nietzsche is read against the backdrop of modern theory in order to explore his continuing challenge to this tradition and his relevance to sociology.
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This is the published version. Copyright 1995 University of Chicago Press.
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1995-07
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The University of Chicago Press
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Antonio, Robert J. "Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History." American Journal of Sociology Am J Sociol 101.1 (1995): 1. Web.