PART ONE: FIRST CYCLE: 1800-1880
THE BIRTH SOCIAL THEORY: ALTRUISM
The Post-revolutionary Void
Sacrificial Theory and the Sociology of Modernity
Theory in Crisis
Religion and the Subjective
End of the First Cycle
Scholasticism
PART TWO: SECOND CYCLE: 1880-1940
THE REBIRTH OF SOCIAL THEORY: ANOMIE
Social Theory Reborn
French Society
Vanguard without a Norm
Method in Crisis and the Resort to Theory in Suicide
End of the Second Cycle
Anthropology and Religion
PART THREE: THIRD CYCLE: 1940-2000
THE SECOND BIRTH OF SOCIAL THEORY: HYPERTELIA
Existential Theory
The Algerian War
From Pathology to Normativity
Structural Theory
Radical Theory and the End of the Social
Fin-de-Cycle
Time of Counter-Strategies
Conclusion
Social Theory at the End of the Social