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The sociology of philosophies: a global theory of intellectual change

Randall Collins © The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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  • 9780674029774 (ebook)
  • 9780674816473 (hardcover)
  • 9780674001879 (paper)
Subject
  • Sociology
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  • Cover
  • Frontmatter (page i)
  • Preface (page xvii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • THE SKELETON OF THEORY (page 17)
    • 1 Coalitions in the Mind (page 19)
    • 2 Networks across the Generations (page 54)
    • 3 Partitioning Attention Space: The Case of Ancient Greece (page 80)
  • COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES - Part I: Asian Paths (page 135)
    • 4 Innovation by Opposition: Ancient China (page 137)
    • 5 External and Internal Politics of the Intellectual World: India (page 177)
    • 6 Revolutions of the Organizational Base: Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China (page 272)
    • 7 Innovation through Conservatism: Japan (page 322)
    • Conclusions to Part I: The Ingredients of Intellectual Life (page 379)
  • COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES - Part II: Western Paths (page 385)
    • 8 Tensions of Indigenous and Imported Ideas: Islam, Judaism, Christendom (page 387)
    • 9 Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword: Medieval Christendom (page 451)
    • 10 Cross-Breeding Networks and Rapid-Discovery Science (page 523)
    • 11 Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality (page 570)
    • 12 Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base: The German University Revolution (page 618)
    • 13 The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles (page 688)
    • 14 Writers' Markets and Academic Networks: The French Connection (page 754)
  • META-REFLECTIONS (page 785)
    • 15 Sequence and Branch in the Social Production of Ideas (page 787)
    • Epilogue: Sociological Realism (page 858)
  • Appendices (page 883)
    • 1. The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity (page 883)
    • 2. The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture (page 890)
    • 3. Keys to Figures (page 893)
  • Notes (page 947)
  • References (page 1035)
  • Index of Persons (page 1069)
  • Index of Subjects (page 1089)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TS 29.6 (Dec. 2000): 854-859 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3108534
ISIS 90.4 (Dec. 1999): 857-858 http://www.jstor.org/stable/237748
MTSR 12.1/4 (2000): 550-551 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23551208
SOCF 16.1 (Mar. 2001): 167-174 http://www.jstor.org/stable/685035
AHR 105.1 (Feb. 2000): 165-166 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2652442
ESR 15.3 (Sep. 1999): 342-345 http://www.jstor.org/stable/522736
CRSCT 49.2 (Summer 1999): 260-265 http://www.jstor.org/stable/24460775
CS 28.3 (May 1999): 277-280 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2654140
AJS 105.2 (Sep. 1999): 528-531 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/210319
CS 28.3 (May 1999): 280-281 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2654141
SOCI 34.3 (Aug. 2000): 573-578 http://www.jstor.org/stable/42856203
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