Immanuel Wallerstein: The Uncertainties of Knowledge

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>The dilemmas faced by the social sciences from a world-renowned historian<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592132423&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1734_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>The Uncertainties of Knowledge</h1> <h3>Immanuel Wallerstein</h3> <P>cloth 1-59213-242-1 $70.50, Mar 04, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-59213-243-X $28.95, Mar 04, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-43990-650-5 $28.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 224 pp 5.5x8.25 </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Immanuel Wallerstein is both a redoubtable world historian and visionary prophet. Such a combination is unusual...[and] makes him a commanding figure, whose rhetorical address, radical ideas, and remarkable erudition challenge ordinary, established patterns of professional discourse."</i> <br>&#151<b>William H. McNeill</b>, <i>Diplomatic History</i><i></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p><i>The Uncertainties of Knowledge</i> 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. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>"Wallerstein draws on his historical erudition and formidable theoretical powers to cast light on the ongoing transformation of our society. Even more impressive, he dares to think about the future."</i> <br>&#151<b>Frances Fox Piven</b> <p><i>"Wallerstein is always readable, often persuasive, and occasionally profound."</i> <br>&#151<b>Michael Mann</b>, <i>The British Journal of Sociology</i> <p><i>"The volume is consistently well written, historically grounded in its own right, and, when taken as a whole, the essays provide new understanding of the thinking that underlies Wallerstein's world-systems analysis."</i> <br>&#151<b><i>Choice</i></b> <p><i>"Immanuel Wallerstein tells a fairly clear story in this book."</i> <br>&#151<b><i><a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJS/journal/issues/v110n6/110609/110609.html" target="new">The American Journal of Sociology</a></i></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Introduction: The Uncertainties of Time <p><b>Part I. The Structures of Knowledge</b> <br>1. For Science, Against Scientism: The Dilemmas of Contemporary Knowledge Production <br>2. Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century <br>3. The End of Certainties in the Social Sciences <br>4. Braudel and Interscience: A Preacher to Empty Pews? <br>5. Time and Duration: The Unexcluded Middle, or Reflections on Braudel and Prigogine <br>6. The Itinerary of World-Systems Analysis, or How to Resist Becoming a Theory <p><b>Part II. Dilemmas of the Disciplines</b> <br>7. History in Search of Science <br>8. Writing History <br>9. Global Culture(s): Salvation, Menace, or Myth? <br>10. From Sociology to Historical Social Science: Prospects and Obstacles <br>11. Anthropology, Sociology, and Other Dubious Disciplines <p>Acknowledgments <br>Notes <br>References <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1734_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Immanuel Wallerstein</b> is Director of the Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, and Senior Research Scholar at Yale University.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/philosophy.html" TARGET="_top">Philosophy and Ethics</a> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/phsc.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Politics, History, and Social Change</a></i>, edited by John C. 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