| Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (Revised) Revised Edition Contributor(s): Collins, Randall (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674001877 ISBN-13: 9780674001879 Publisher: Belknap Press OUR PRICE: $48.51 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: Through network diagrams and sustained narrative, sociologist Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought from ancient Greece to modern Europe. Collins provides a self-reflexive sociological philosophy of intellectual life that opens a new path beyond relativism and realism. Illustrated. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.420 |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (3.20 lbs) 1120 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Collins, Randall: - Randall Collins is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. |