The sociology of philosophies : a global theory of intellectual change

The sociology of philosophies : a global theory of intellectual change / Randall Collins.

"Through network diagrams and sustained narrative, Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought in China, Japan, India, ancient Greece, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a general theory of intell...

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Main Author: Collins, Randall, 1941-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Philosophy > History.
Comparative civilization.
Philosophers > Social networks.
sociology of knowledge.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Comparative civilization
Knowledge, Sociology of
Philosophy
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Vergelijkende filosofie.
Kennissociologie.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Coalitions in the Mind
  • 2. Networks across the Generations
  • 3. Partitioning Attention Space: The Case of Ancient Greece
  • 4. Innovation by Opposition: Ancient China
  • 5. External and Internal Politics of the Intellectual World: India
  • 6. Revolutions of the Organizational Base: Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China
  • 7. Innovation through Conservatism: Japan
  • 8. Tensions of Indigenous and Imported Ideas: Islam, Judaism, Christendom
  • 9. Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword: Medieval Christendom
  • 10.\. Cross-Breeding Networks and Rapid-Discovery Science
  • 11. Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality
  • 12. Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base: The German University Revolution
  • 13.
  • The. Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles
  • 14. Writer's Markets and Academic Networks: The French Connection
  • 15. Sequence and Branch in the Social Production of Ideas
  • Epilogue. Sociological Realism
  • App. 1.
  • The. Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity
  • App. 2.
  • The. Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture.

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