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The Sociology of Philosophies
Randall Collins
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Description for The Sociology of Philosophies
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 1120 pages, 15 maps, 57 line illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HP; JFCX; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1452.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
1120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
1452g
Number of Pages
1120
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674001879
SKU
V9780674001879
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99-1
About Randall Collins
Randall Collins is Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for The Sociology of Philosophies
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.
Canadian Journal of Sociology
The one work that all sociologists of ideas, novices and veterans alike, hereafter must read… It is beyond question Randall Collins’ masterpiece.
European Journal of Sociology
[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.
European Sociological Review
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.
Library Journal
What an impressive book Randall Collins has written…so broadly learned, so ambitious in its analysis, and readable to boot! 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.
Canadian Journal of Sociology
The one work that all sociologists of ideas, novices and veterans alike, hereafter must read… It is beyond question Randall Collins’ masterpiece.
European Journal of Sociology
[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.
European Sociological Review
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.
Library Journal
What an impressive book Randall Collins has written…so broadly learned, so ambitious in its analysis, and readable to boot! 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.