"The author contends that sociology, the science of social reform, is tied to the modern project of creating normalcy. This project is not viable in post-normal times brought on by Covid-19 and climate change. Thorpe argues that sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • Notes
• Chapter 1: Hypernormalization in Post-Normal Times
  • The Decline of American Imperialism and the End of Normal
  • The Spectacle of Normalcy
  • Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Disposability
  • The Post-Normal Condition
  • Normal and Post-Normal Sociology
  • The University Caught in the Contradiction between Nation-State and Global Economy
  • Notes
• Chapter 2: From the Pathology of Normalcy to the Normalcy of Pathology
  • Risk and Dread
  • Wilding in Post-Normal and Post-National Capitalism
  • The Normalcy of Pathology
  • Notes
• Chapter 3: Reason of State in a Global Age
  • Science, Market, State
  • “Science as a Vocation” and the Paradoxes of Capitalist Rationalization
  • The Self-Negation of Autonomous Science
  • War Is a Force That Gives Sociologists Meaning
  • Notes
• Chapter 4: The Sociological Moment
  • Normalcy and Normal Sociology
  • “Society” as Commodity Fetishism and Nationalism
  • Sociology as Technocratic Utopianism
  • The Manufacture of Normalcy and Its Material Foundations
  • The End of Sociology’s “Society”
  • MEDIATION AND ITS CRISIS
  • Mediation through Fragmentation
  • Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author