The time of the human: temporality and philosophical sociology

Daniel Chernilo’s (2014, 340) invitation to the project of philosophical sociology is elo- quent and elegant: ‘the questions that matter to sociologists are always, in the last instance, also philosophical ones’. Chernilo invites to see the philosophical underpinnings of socio- logical questions and the sociological dimension of philosophical questions, without confl- ating the particularities of each discipline. His invitation is surely welcomed, regardless of the specific reservations one may have about his general proposal (for other versions of ‘philosophical sociology’ see, for instance, Caillé and Vandenberghe 2016; Chanial 2011; Karsenti 2013; Vandenberghe 2017, 2018). Like Chernilo, we too mourn the seemingly progressive loss of the philosophical breadth in our discipline and find in ‘idea of philo- sophical sociology’ a place to gather and dwell.