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- catalog abstract ""Through network diagrams and sustained narrative, Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought in China, Japan, India, ancient Greece, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a general theory of intellectual life, 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. According to his theory, when the material bases of intellectual life shift with the rise and fall of religions, educational systems, and publishing markets, opportunities open for some networks to expand while others shrink and close down. It locates individuals - among them celebrated thinkers like Socrates, Aristotle, Chu Hsi, Shankara, Wirt Henstein, and Heidegger - within these networks and explains the emotional and symbolic processes that, by forming coalitions within the mind, ultimately bring about original and historically successful ideas."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b10585683.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Through network diagrams and sustained narrative, Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought in China, Japan, India, ancient Greece, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a general theory of intellectual life, 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. According to his theory, when the material bases of intellectual life shift with the rise and fall of religions, educational systems, and publishing markets, opportunities open for some networks to expand while others shrink and close down. It locates individuals - among them celebrated thinkers like Socrates, Aristotle, Chu Hsi, Shankara, Wirt Henstein, and Heidegger - within these networks and explains the emotional and symbolic processes that, by forming coalitions within the mind, ultimately bring about original and historically successful ideas."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. Coalitions in the Mind -- 2. Networks across the Generations -- 3. Partitioning Attention Space: The Case of Ancient Greece -- 4. Innovation by Opposition: Ancient China -- 5. External and Internal Politics of the Intellectual World: India -- 6. Revolutions of the Organizational Base: Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China -- 7. Innovation through Conservatism: Japan -- 8. Tensions of Indigenous and Imported Ideas: Islam, Judaism, Christendom -- 9. Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword: Medieval Christendom -- 10.\ Cross-Breeding Networks and Rapid-Discovery Science -- 11. Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality -- 12. Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base: The German University Revolution -- 13. The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles -- 14. Writer's Markets and Academic Networks: The French Connection -- 15. Sequence and Branch in the Social Production of Ideas -- Epilogue: Sociological Realism -- App. 1. The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity -- App. 2. The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 1035-1068) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xix, 1098 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sociology of philosophies.".
- catalog identifier "0674816471 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sociology of philosophies.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Sociology of philosophies.".
- catalog subject "306.4/2/09 21".
- catalog subject "BD175 .C565 1998".
- catalog subject "Comparative civilization.".
- catalog subject "Knowledge, Sociology of.".
- catalog subject "Philosophers Social networks.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Coalitions in the Mind -- 2. Networks across the Generations -- 3. Partitioning Attention Space: The Case of Ancient Greece -- 4. Innovation by Opposition: Ancient China -- 5. External and Internal Politics of the Intellectual World: India -- 6. Revolutions of the Organizational Base: Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China -- 7. Innovation through Conservatism: Japan -- 8. Tensions of Indigenous and Imported Ideas: Islam, Judaism, Christendom -- 9. Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword: Medieval Christendom -- 10.\ Cross-Breeding Networks and Rapid-Discovery Science -- 11. Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality -- 12. Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base: The German University Revolution -- 13. The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles -- 14. Writer's Markets and Academic Networks: The French Connection -- 15. Sequence and Branch in the Social Production of Ideas -- Epilogue: Sociological Realism -- App. 1. The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity -- App. 2. The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture.".
- catalog title "The sociology of philosophies : a global theory of intellectual change / Randall Collins.".
- catalog type "text".