The Sociology of Philosophies

A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-674-00187-9
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1446 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Randall

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Collins, Randall
Randall Collins is Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania.