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Title: THE UNCERTAINTIES OF KNOWLEDGE
By: Immanuel Wallerstein, John Torpey
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 1592132421
ISBN 13: 9781592132423
Publisher: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS,U.S.
Pub. date: 1 March, 2004
Series: Politics, History, & Social Change
Pages: 224
Description: Offers a conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.
Synopsis: "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. Immanuel Wallerstein is Director of the Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, and Senior Research Scholar at Yale University.
Publication: US
Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S.
Returns: Returnable
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