Author : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
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ISBN 13 : 9781592132430
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (324 download)
Book Synopsis The Uncertainties of Knowledge by : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
Download or read book The Uncertainties of Knowledge written by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Author note: Immanuel Wallerstein is Director of the Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, and Senior Research Scholar at Yale University.