Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This collection of twenty essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. The authors, who represent a wide range of disciplines, are all associated with the School's emphasis on interpretive social science, which rejects models from the hard sciences and opts instead for a humanistic approach to social inquiry.
Following a preface by Clifford Geertz, whose profound insights have helped shape the School from the outset, the essays are arranged in four sections. The first offers personal reflections on disciplinary changes; the second features essays advocating changes in focus or methodology; the third presents field overviews and institutional history; while the fourth addresses the link between political philosophy and world governance. Two recurring themes are the uses (and pitfalls) of interdisciplinary studies and the relation between scholarship and social change. This book will be rewarding for anyone interested in how changing trends in scholarship shape the understanding of our social worlds.
The contributors include David Apter, Kaushik Basu, Judith Butler, Nicholas Dirks, Jean Elshtain, Peter Galison, Wolf Lepenies, Jane Mansbridge, Andrew Pickering, Mary Poovey, Istvan Rev, Renato Rosaldo, Michael Rustin, Joan W. Scott, William H. Sewell, Jr., Quentin Skinner, Charles Taylor, Anna Tsing, Michael Walzer, and Gavin Wright.
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"Schools of Thought is a tremendous contribution to scholarship in the broadest sense, or perhaps one should say, meta-scholarship. It is also loaded with rich, stimulating, and provocative essays by a roster of brilliant scholars. I can't think of anything quite like this book. It captures, in a many-faceted way, what has truly been a revolution in the social sciences in the past twenty-five years. It will be extremely widely read across the social sciences, and across many of the humanities as well."Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University
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Schools of Thought is a tremendous contribution to scholarship in the broadest sense, or perhaps one should say, meta-scholarship. It is also loaded with rich, stimulating, and provocative essays by a roster of brilliant scholars. I can't think of anything quite like this book. It captures, in a many-faceted way, what has truly been a revolution in the social sciences in the past twenty-five years. It will be extremely widely read across the social sciences, and across many of the humanities as well. -- Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University
Acknowledgments vii Introduction School Building: A Retrospective Preface 1(12) Clifford Geertz Part One Blurred Genres: Reflections on Disciplinary Practices 13(70) Political Theory after the Enlightenment Project 15(10) Quentin Skinner Twenty-five Years of Social Science and Social Change: A Personal Memoir 25(16) Wolf Lepenies Economic History as a Cure for Economics 41(11) Gavin Wright Can the ``Other of Philosophy Speak? 52(15) Judith Butler Reflections on Interdisciplinarity 67(16) Renato Rosaldo Part Two The State of the Art: New Methods and New Questions 83(124) After History? 85(19) John W. Scott The Global Situation 104(35) Anna Tsing Modernity and Identity 139(15) Charles Taylor The Role of Norms and Law in Economics: An Essay on Political Economy 154(25) Kaushik Basu Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization 179(15) Peter Galison Science as Alchemy 194(13) Andrew Pickering Part Three Thick Description: Field Overviews and Institutional History 207(106) Whatever Happened to the ``Social in Social History? 209(18) William H. Sewell, Jr. Postcolonialism and Its Discontents: History, Anthropology, and Postocolonial Critique 227(25) Nicholas B. Dirks Structure, Contingency, and Choice: A Comparision of Trends and Tendencies in Political Science 252(36) David E. Apter Interdisciplinarity at New York University 288(25) Mary Poovey Part Four The World in Pieces: Political Philosophy and World Governance 313(90) Political Theory and Moral Responsibility 315(15) Jean Bethke Elshtain A ``Moral Core Solution to the Prisoners Dilemma 330(18) Jane Mansbridge Reinterpreting Risk 348(16) Michael Rustin Retropia:Critical Reason Turns Primitive 364(24) Istvan Rev International Society: What Is the Best that We Can Do? 388(15) Michael Walzer Author Notes 403
Joan W. Scott is Harold Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book is Only Paradoxes to Offer. Debra Keates directs publications for the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. She is coeditor of Transitions, Environments, Translations.
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