Uncertainties of Knowledge |
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| Author:
| Wallerstein, Immanuel |
| Series title: | Politics History and Social Chan Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59213-243-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2004 |
| Publisher: | Temple University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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The Uncertainties of Knowledge extends Immanuel Wallerstein's decade-long work of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current intellectual thought. He argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This is wrong, he suggests. Instead, Wallerstein offers a new conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.
The Uncertainties of Knowledge extends Immanuel Wallerstein's decade-long work of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current intellectual thought. He argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This is wrong, he suggests. Instead, Wallerstein offers a new conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.