The sociology of philosophies : a global theory of intellectual change /
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Cambridge ; London :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- The skeleton of theory. Coalitions in the mind. Networks across the generations. Partitioning attention space : the case of ancient Greece. Comparative history of intellectual communities : Asian paths. Innovation by opposition : ancient China. External and internal politics of the intellectual world : India. Revolutions of the organizational base : buddhist and neo-confucian China. Innovation through conservatism : Japan. Comparative history of intellectual communities : Western paths. Tensions of indigenous and imported ideas : Islam, Judaism, Christendom. Academic expansion as a two-edged sword : medieval christendom. Cross-breeding networks and rapid-discovery science. Secularization and philosophical meta-territoriality. Intellectuals take control of their base : the german university revolution. The post-revolutionary condition : boundaries as philosophical puzzles. Writers markets and academic networks : the French connection. Meta-reflections. Sequence and branch in the social production of ideas. Sociological realism. The clustering of contemporaneous creativity. The incompleteness of our historical picture