Table of Contents
Part I – Introduction: The Global Media Society and the Nature of Theory
Chapter 1
The Global Media Society and the Nature of Theory
Chapter 2
A Brief History of Western Philosophy: From Socrates to Hegel
Part II – The Nature of Theory: Marx and E.H. Carr — Political Economy / History
Chapter 3
Marxism: The Ultimate Example of Theory as Answer
Chapter 4
Marxism as Theory and Prediction
Chapter 5
Marxism and Theory as Answer: An Epistemological Critique
Chapter 6
E.H. Carr and The 20 Years’ Crisis: A Structural Analysis
Chapter 7
A Structural Analysis of The Twenty Years’ Crisis and The Dynamics of Theory as Question
Part III – Society and Objectivity: Claude Levi-Strauss and Max Weber — Structural Anthropology / Verstehende Sociology
Chapter 8
Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, and The Savage Mind
Chapter 9
The Dynamics of Mythical Thinking: Bricolage, Classification and Transformation
Chapter 10
The Interlinked Dynamics of Mythical Thinking and Political Thinking: The Post-World War II US Experience
Chapter 11
Cognitive, Normative and Emotional Aspects of Myth and Post-1945 American Political Thinking
Chapter 12
Dominant Myths and the Production of Media
Chapter 13
Dominant Myths and the Consumption of Media – Media and the Consumption of Dominant Myths
Chapter 14
Max Weber, Verstehende Sociology and A Democratic Theory of Objectivity
Chapter 15
The “Objective” Analysis of Action, Thought and Concrete Situations
Part IV – Consciousness and Communication: Freud and Kenneth Burke — Psychoanalysis / Literary Theory
Chapter 16
Freud, Dream Analysis and “The Fundamental Question”
Chapter 17
“The Fundamental Dilemma,” Dream Analysis and Medianalysis ©: Interpreting the “Dreams of the World”
Chapter 18
Kenneth Burke and the Structural Dynamics of Communication and Language
Chapter 19
Hierarchy, Image and The Structural Dynamics of Narrative and Story
Part V — Conclusion
Chapter 20
Medianalysis, Critical Thinking, and the Millennium Crisis
[ Forthcoming ]