The Sociology of Philosophies

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13.1 German Network, 1835–1900: Neo-Kantians,


13.2 British Philosophers and Mathematicians, 1800–1935:



  • Medieval Christendom

    • The Organizational Bases of Christian Thought

    • The Inner Autonomy of the University

    • The Breakup of Theological Philosophy

    • Intellectuals as Courtiers: The Humanists

    • The Question of Intellectual Stagnation

    • Twentieth Century Coda: The Intellectual Demoralization of the Late



  • Rapid-Discovery Science 10 Cross-Breeding Networks and

    • A Cascade of Creative Circles

    • Philosophical Connections of the Scientific Revolution

    • Three Revolutions and Their Networks

    • The Mathematicians

    • The Scientific Revolution

    • The Philosophical Revolution: Bacon and Descartes



  • Meta-territoriality 11 Secularization and Philosophical

    • Secularization of the Intellectual Base

    • Geopolitics and Cleavages within Catholicism

    • Reemergence of the Metaphysical Field

    • Reason Jewish Millennialism and Spinoza’s Religion of

    • Leibniz’s Mathematical Metaphysics

    • Toleration Rival Philosophies upon the Space of Religious

    • Deism and the Independence of Value Theory

    • The Reversal of Alliances

    • Opposition Anti-modernist Modernism and the Anti-scientific

    • The Triumph of Epistemology



  • The German University Revolution 12 Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base:

    • The German Idealist Movement

    • Philosophy Captures the University

    • Idealism as Ideology of the University Revolution

    • Political Crisis as the Outer Layer of Causality

    • The Spread of the University Revolution





    1. The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity





    1. The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture





    1. Keys to Figures



  • Notes

  • References

  • Index of Persons

  • Index of Subjects

    • Historicists, Positivists, Psychologists

    • Trinity-Bloomsbury Circle University Reform, Idealist Movement,

    • of 13.3 Realignment of the Networks in the Generation



  • 13.4 Neo-Kantians and the Vienna Circle

  • 13.5 Physicists’ Methodological Controversies

  • 13.6 Network of Mathematical Logic and Foundations

  • 13.7 Vienna Circle: Composite Network

    • 1865–1965 13.8 Network of Phenomenologists and Existentialists,



  • 14.1 Network of French Philosophers, 1765–1935

    • 1835–1900: Die Freien and the Nihilists 14.2 Young Hegelians and Religious/Political Radicals,



  • E.1 Sung Dynasty Celestial Element Algebra

  • Philosophical Schools in the Mediterranean Region MAPS

  • Intellectual Centers in the Warring States, 350 b.c.e.

  • Han Dynasty, 200 b.c.e.–200 c.e.

  • Second Period of Division, 250 c.e.

  • Ganges States, 500 b.c.e.

  • Height of Maurya Empire, 250 b.c.e.

  • Balance of Power, 150 c.e.

  • Gupta Empire, 400 c.e.

  • Eve of Mogul Invasion,

  • Principal Chinese Buddhist Monasteries

  • Intellectual and Religious Centers of Japan

  • Height of the ‘Abbasid Caliphate, 800 c.e.

  • Cathedral Schools of Northern France, 1100 c.e.

  • Geopolitical Crisis of the Spanish-Habsburg Empire,

  • German Universities, 1348–1900

  • 2.1 Distribution of Philosophers for All Networks TABLES

  • 9.1 University Foundations and Failures, 1000–1600

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