Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

The Uncertainties of Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

The Uncertainties of Knowledge extends Immanuel Wallerstein's decade-long work of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current intellectual thought. He argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This is wrong, he suggests. Instead, Wallerstein offers a new conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.

Produktdetails

• Politics, History, and Social
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 211
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781592132423
• ISBN-10: 1592132421
• Artikelnr.: 21133466

Autorenporträt

Immanuel Wallerstein is Director of the Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, and Senior Research Scholar at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Uncertainties of TimePart I. The Structures of
Knowledge1. For Science, Against Scientism: The Dilemmas of Contemporary
Knowledge Production2. Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century3. The
End of Certainties in the Social Sciences4. Braudel and Interscience: A
Preacher to Empty Pews?5. Time and Duration: The Unexcluded Middle, or
Reflections on Braudel and Prigogine6. The Itinerary of World-Systems
Analysis, or How to Resist Becoming a TheoryPart II. Dilemmas of the
Disciplines7. History in Search of Science8. Writing History9. Global
Culture(s): Salvation, Menace, or Myth?10. From Sociology to Historical
Social Science: Prospects and Obstacles11. Anthropology, Sociology, and
Other Dubious DisciplinesAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex