Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction: Discourse and Sociology Part I: Theory of Discourse and Discourse Analysis Introduction: From Presentism and Historicism to Discourse 2. Theory of Discourse 3. Sociological Theory of Discourse 4. Discourse of Modernity 5. Sociological Discourse Analysis Part II: Discourse of Modernity and the Construction of Sociology Introduction: Crisis Discourse and Sociology 6. The Early Modern Problem of Violence 7. The Rights Discourse 8.

Contributions to Enlightenment Sociology 9. Discursive Construction of Enlightenment Sociology 10. Crisis and Critique: The Relation between Social and Political Theory Notes Bibliography Index of Names Subject Index.