[Read ebook] The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
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| #898820 in Books | Randall Collins | 1998-03-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 2.00 x6.40 x9.20l,3.13 | File Name: 0674001877 | 1098 pages | The Sociology of Philosophies A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| A beginner's guide|By guy noir|Randall Collins has provided a comprehensive overview of the major philosophical ideas that interested non philosophers can use as an introduction without fear of missing anything important. As a physician grappling daily with the issues of knowledge assessment, the extensive overview was well worth the few weeks it took to read the book. Many de|.com |In just under 900 pages (with another 100 or so pages of notes and bibliography), sociologist Randall Collins elaborates upon his proposed model for how intellectuals--"people who produce decontextualized ideas"--work among one another. Borrowing Erving
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 ...
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