Since the world expressed by the total system of concepts is the world as society represents to itself, only society can furnish the generalized notions according to which such a world must be represented...Since the universe exists only insofar as it is thought, and since it can be thought totally only by society itself, it takes its place within society, becomes an element of its inner life, and society may thus be seen as that total genus beyond which nothing else exists. The very concept of totality is but the abstract form of the concept of society: that whole which includes all things, that supreme class under which all other classes must be subsumed. -Durkheim
From The introduction of The Political Unconscious by Fredric Jameson
the total system of concepts=world=what is represented/represents.
only what its thought exists.
totality(abstract concept)=society=all things
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