ABSTRACT
A Gothic sociology had been given an unintended impetus by Max Nordau’s mordant recognition of its penetration into the social scientific and humanistic discourses. An unfeeling bureaucratic control over and a callous oppression of dependent peoples for the purpose of garnering ever-greater profits constitute the elementary forms of Gothic capitalist imperialism. Sociology - the discipline which Robert E. Park had studied under the guidance of Georg Simmel - owes its origins to the Enlightenment, to the aftermath of the French Revolution, and to the epoch in which Reason began to flourish in the Occident. Park himself came to regard the more egregious effects of imperialism - viz., the race problem - as an inevitable incident in the history of modern Europe’s attempt at world hegemonism. “The Gothic novel” “finds its most fruitful mode of evocation in delineating an imaginative response to the objective world that is grounded in the emotions”.
