Experiencing society

The prejudice of thinking at sociology as an “invention” of modern science is still quite common. Sociology, instead, must be rediscovered in the wake of the ancients, inasmuch it concerns men’s “living together” and “coexisting”. The world of polis and modern societies are obviously incomparable, but ancients “discovered” that society is a macroanthropos – a man writ large – and not simply a systemic microcosm, as still represented by a certain obsolete scientistic methodologism. This volume – completed just before the author’s passing – aims at recovering this masterful discovery, revisiting Eric Voegelin’s all-important insights and outlining the basis of a realist social ontology.