Sociology of Philosophies A Global Theory of Intellectual Change

Name: Sociology of Philosophies A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
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ISBN: 9780674001879

ISBN-10: 0674001877

ISBN-13: 9780674001879

Edition: 1998

Authors: Randall Collins

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Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1120
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.33" long x 2.40" tall
Weight: 3.410
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction The Skeleton Of Theory Coalitions in the Mind


Networks across the Generations


Partitioning Attention Space: The Case of Ancient Greece


Comparative History Of Intellectual Communities



Asian Paths Innovation by Opposition: Ancient China


External and Internal Politics of the Intellectual World: India


Revolutions of the Organizational Base: Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China


Innovation through Conservatism: Japan


Conclusions to Part I: The Ingredients of Intellectual Life


Comparative History Of Intellectual Communities



Western Paths Tensions of Indigenous and Imported Ideas: Islam, Judaism, Christendom


Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword: Medieval Christendom


Cross-Breeding Networks and Rapid-Discovery Science


Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality


Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base: The German UniversityRevolution


The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles


Writers, Markets and Academic Networks: The French Connection Meta-Reflections Sequence and Branch in the Social Production of Ideas


Epilogue: Sociological Realism



The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity



The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture



Keys to Figures


Notes


References


Index of Persons


Index of Subjects