The Sociology of Philosophies

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Acknowledgments I an indebted to many individuals for their help in reading chapters or other- wise offering criticism, informat ...

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Introduction Intellectual life is first of all conflict and disagreement. Teaching may give the opposite impression, when initia ...

gence, and by extension against any psychological or neurological theory which describes the mind as a computer. Computers are c ...

that is too remote from the focus of attention where the intellectual action is going on. Individuals beget ideas. Here too is ...

Schleiermacher (also of the Romantic circle) and with Humboldt to establish the new-style university; here Hegel eventually come ...

Such structures anchor the development of philosophy in all historical regions. If we turn to ancient Greece, we find the histor ...

nent teachers and pupils. Such are easy to illustrate from all portions of his- tory, and the analysis of chains will occupy us ...

important intellectuals (though fewer) are isolated in time, without contempo- raries of stature who can act as structural rival ...

in free-floating reality, along with the free-floating thinker-observer. But the very concept of truth has developed within soci ...

The argument is sometimes put more abstractly: culture is meta-social, the grounds which make the social possible. In tribal soc ...

have difficulty in distinguishing between the existential and copulative senses of “to be.” Nevertheless, philosophers have made ...

of culture is allied with a more general position variously labeled poststructu- ralist, postpositivist, or postmodernist. No ge ...

Ideas cannot be explained by the social because nothing can be explained by anything, most centrally because the very fixing of ...

the same thing as the politics of gaining power in the state, or the politics of men and women in their homes or sexual encounte ...

which, far from being self-undermining, is self-exemplifying and self-reinforc- ing. The argument is best made at the end of the ...

intellectual world, are periodically rearranged; there is a limited amount of attention that can be distributed through the tota ...

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