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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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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. -- Ilan Talmud "European Sociological Review" 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.--Benjamin I. Schwartz, author of The World of Thought in Ancient China [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.--Ilan Talmud "European Sociological Review " The one work that all sociologists of ideas, novices and veterans alike, hereafter must read It is beyond question Randall Collins' masterpiece.--Charles Camic "European Journal of Sociology " 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.--Peter Baehr "Canadian Journal of Sociology " 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.--Leslie Armour "Library Journal " What an impressive book Randall Collins has written...so broadly learned, so ambitious in its analysis, and readable to boot!--William H. Mcnaeill, author of The Rise of the West Read more...


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- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Philosophy -- History.
- Comparative civilization.
- Philosophers -- Social networks.
- Sociologie de la connaissance.
- Philosophie -- Histoire.
- Civilisation comparée.
- Philosophes -- Réseaux sociaux.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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- Geestesgeschiedenis.
- Vergelijkende filosofie.
- Kennissociologie.
- Philosophy.