The Sociology of Philosophies

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THE SOCIOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHIES A Global Theory of Intellectual Change £ RANDALL COLLINS THE BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY P ...

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Contents Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi Introduction 1 THE SKELETON OF THEORY 1 Coalitions in the Mind 19 General Theory of In ...

The Hellenistic Realignment of Positions 103 The Roman Base and the Second Realignment 109 The Stimulus of Religious Polarizatio ...

6 Revolutions of the Organizational Base: Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China 272 Buddhism and the Organizational Transformation of ...

9 Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword: ...

13 The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles 688 Meta-territories upon the Science-Philosophy Border ...

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Figures, Maps, and Tables FIGURES 2.1 Network of Chinese Philosophers, 400–200 b.c.e. 55 2.2 Network of Greek Philosophers from ...

5.5 Hindu Oppositions, 900–1500: Nyaya Realists, Advaita Idealists, Vaishnava Dualists 258 6.1 Taoist Church and Imported Buddhi ...

13.1 German Network, 1835–1900: Neo-Kantians, 13.2 British Philosophers and Mathematicians, 1800–1935: Medieval Christendom The ...

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Preface The twentieth century is the first in which comprehending world history has become possible. Previous generations of sch ...

comparisons are not entirely lacking; scholars such as Braudel, Needham, McNeill, and Abu-Lughod have continued to widen East-We ...

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