For a Non-Reductionist Sociology of Metaphysical Knowledge: On the Social Conditions of Possibility for Knowing Justice in the Secularocene

This paper makes the case for the “moral” need of establishing a new relation between sociology and metaphysics in a way to redefine both the discipline of sociology and the social cosmos we inhabit. Arguing that justice is no longer knowable in the Secularocene, i.e. the current state of the earth as Meziane (2024) calls it, where nothing substantial is done to prevent neither a “genocide on air” in Gaza nor a planetary ecocide (or self-genocide of human species), the paper seeks to investigate the social conditions of possibility for this obscurity and incapacity of justice. Deeming indispensable a metaphysically and sociologically grounded imaginary of justice for the human future, the paper joins the invitation to refound sociology not just for overcoming the current crisis of sociology to avoid “the coming end of sociology”, as Vandenberghe and Fuchs (2019) put it, but also for overcoming the moral crisis of secular colonial modernity to avoid the coming end of human sociality on earth all together.