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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Collins, Randall, 1941- Sociology of philosophies. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998 (DLC) 97018446 (OCoLC)37315227 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Randall Collins |
ISBN: | 9780674029774 0674029771 |
OCLC Number: | 608130135 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Awards: | Winner of Association of American Publishers/Professional and Scholarly Publishing: Sociology and Anthropology 1998 Winner of American Sociological Association: Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award 1999 Winner of AESA Critic's Choice Award 2000 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 1098 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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. |
Responsibility: | Randall Collins. |
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Abstract:
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, and reveals how creativity is driven by a range of conflicting positions in each community.
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