Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Desperately Seeking Sociology in the 21st Century -- 1 Tales of the Academic Undead: The Mysterious Disappearance of Society -- 2 The Social Sciences at Risk: A Brief History of the Stakes -- 3 Socialism as the Elusive Synthesis at the Heart of Social Science -- 4 The Problem of Inheritance and Socialism's Ultimate Retreat to Naturalism -- 5 Towards a Renewal of Welfare and the Rediscovery of British Sociology -- 6 Interlude: Today's Orwellian Turn in Social Science -- Part Two: The Biological Challenge to Social Science -- 7 The Hidden Biological Past of Classical Social Theory -- 8 Making the Difference between Sociology and Biology Matter Today -- 9 Beware of Darwinists Bearing Leftist Gifts: The Struggle for Marx's Successor -- 10 Who (or What) Deserves Our Sympathy? -- Part Three: Humanity as the Endangered Species of Our Times -- 11 The Coming World-Historic Struggle in Science and Religion -- 12 Understanding the Fundamentalist Backlash against Secularism -- 13 Karma Secularized: The Darwinian Turn in Development Policy -- 14 Might we become Nazis in Paradise? -- Conclusion: Is there no Escape from Human Nature? -- Glossary -- References -- Index.