<p>Introduction.- Acknowledgments.- CHAPTER I: THE DOMAIN OF SOCIAL ONTOLOGY.- 1. Conflicting Intuitions: Antigone’s Paradox.- 2. Ontology.- 3. Social Ontology.- 3.1. The Stipulative Model and the Essentialist Model.- 3.2. The Origins of the Essentialist Model.- 3.3. Contra Hume: Reinach’s Essentialism.- 3.3.1. The A Priori Foundations of Social Ontology.- 3.3.2. Arguments For and Against the Essentialist Model.- 3.3.2.1. The "Tragedy of the Commons" and the Irreducibility of Power.- 3.4. The Primitives of Social Reality: Action, Covenants, Emotions.- CHAPTER II: THEORIES.- 1. ‘P-ontologies’: People, Groups, Relations.- 1.1. Common Commitment and Plural Action.- 2. ‘I-ontologies’: Facts, Institutions, Procedures.- 2.1. The Relational Character of Social Ontology.- 2.2. The Foundations: Assignment of Function, Collective Intentionality, Constitutive Rules.- 2.2.1. Assignment of Function.- 2.2.2. Intentionality.- 2.2.3. Individual Intentionality.- 2.2.4. Intentionality.- 2.2.5. Constitutive and Regulative Rules.- 2.2.6. Institutional Facts.- 2.3. Rules and the Normative Issue.- 3. Le ‘O-ontologies’ and the Role of Documents.- 3.1. The (Social) World In Eleven Theses.- 3.2. The Ontology Of Social Objects.- 3.3. From the Letter to the Document: the Case of the European Community.- 3.3.1. Phenomenology of Documents.- 3.3.2. Governmentality: the Poietic Power Of Documents.- CHAPTER III: STATE AND JUSTICE.- 1. That Thing Called State.- 2. Transgenerational Actions.- 2.1. Epistemology.- 2.2. Ontology.- 2.3. Three Theories of The State: A Comparison.- 2.3.1. Utopia.- 2.3.2. Leviathan.- 2.3.3. Minimal State.- 2.4. The Prejudice Against the State: Anarchist Theories.- 2.5. Social Contract 2.0.- CHAPTER IV: A CROSS-SECTION OF POWER.- 1. States and Meta-States.- 2. Jonas’ Half-World.- 2.1. Energy.- 2.2. Power.- 3. The Macrostructure Of Institutional Reality.- 3.1. Document Bureaucracy.- 3.1.1. Actions.- 3.1.2. Memory.- 3.2. Identity.- 3.2.1 The Memory of Art.</p>
