The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
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| Management number | 232061890 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$16.90 | Model Number | 232061890 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0674001877 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0674001879 |
| Edition | Revised ed. |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |
| Dimensions | 6.4 x 2 x 9.2 inches |
| Item Weight | 3.15 pounds |
| Print length | 1098 pages |
| Publication date | March 4, 1998 |
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