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Sociology of Philosophies : A Global Theory of Intellectual Change by Randall Collins (2000, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674001877
ISBN-139780674001879
eBay Product ID (ePID)1646204
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Book TitleSociology of Philosophies : a Global Theory of Intellectual Change
Number of Pages1120 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicPhilosophers, History & Surveys / General, Sociology / General
IllustratorYes
GenrePhilosophy, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorRandall Collins
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height2.4 in
Item Weight72.6 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width7.5 in
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ReviewsThe one work that all sociologists of ideas, novices and veterans alike, hereafter must read It is beyond question Randall Collins' masterpiece., The one work that all sociologists of ideas, novices and veterans alike, hereafter must read... It is beyond question Randall Collins' masterpiece., This astonishing book testifies to decades of research through the greater part of philosophy--East and West... It reaches out to the ordinary reader, who could acquire a rich education in the humanities just by following it through., What an impressive book Randall Collins has written...so broadly learned, so ambitious in its analysis, and readable to boot!, No sociologist who is seriously concerned with understanding intellectual life can afford to ignore it... Randall Collins has rendered a service to sociology second to none., The Sociology of Philosophies is a truly astonishing work of scholarship based on a vast global erudition...it offers rich, highly illuminating and provocative insights on a vast array of topics., No sociologist who is seriously concerned with understanding intellectual life can afford to ignore it...Randall Collins has rendered a service to sociology second to none., This astonishing book testifies to decades of research through the greater part of philosophy-East and West...It reaches out to the ordinary reader, who could acquire a rich education in the humanities just by following it through., [A] rich, systematic and empirically grounded account of intellectual change in three civilizations. The Sociology of Philosophies is an ambitious, comprehensive, and brilliant account of the rationalization process of three world philosophies: Western, Indian, and Asian. In Collins' analysis, this developmental process is shown to be generated via social and conceptual networks... The book expounds upon an immense range of intellectual history, and certainly makes inspiring and interesting reading. And, despite the heavy subject and incredible scope, Collins' writing style resembles an oral lecture more than an abstruse disquisition., [A] rich, systematic and empirically grounded account of intellectual change in three civilizations. The Sociology of Philosophies is an ambitious, comprehensive, and brilliant account of the rationalization process of three world philosophies: Western, Indian, and Asian. In Collins' analysis, this developmental process is shown to be generated via social and conceptual networks...The book expounds upon an immense range of intellectual history, and certainly makes inspiring and interesting reading. And, despite the heavy subject and incredible scope, Collins' writing style resembles an oral lecture more than an abstruse disquisition.
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Table Of ContentPreface 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 PART I: 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 PART II: 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 Appendix 1: The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity Appendix 2: The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture Appendix 3: Keys to Figures Notes References Index of Persons Index of Subjects
SynopsisCollins traces the movement of philosophical thought in ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. He focuses on the social locations where sophisticated ideas are formed: the patterns of intellectual networks and their inner divisions and conflicts., A comprehensive history of world philosophy, this book is also a social history of global intellectual life. Eschewing polemics, it presents a sophisticated view of the multiple cultures of world history, disintegrates stereotypes of regional cultures, and reveals how creativity is driven by a range of conflicting positions in each community. We see what is sociologically universal about Western, Indian, and Asian intellectual life, as well as what combinations of social ingredients have produced their divergent pathways., Randall Collins traces the movement of philosophical thought in ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a social theory of intellectual change, one that avoids both the reduction of ideas to the influences of society at large and the purely contingent local construction of meanings. Instead, Collins focuses on the social locations where sophisticated ideas are formed: the patterns of intellectual networks and their inner divisions and conflicts.
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