Anna Tsing
Anthropologist
Area studies
Cambridge University Press
Capitalism
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Clifford Geertz
Colonialism
Communism
Critical theory
Criticism
Cultural anthropology
Cultural studies
Economic history
Economics
Economist
Economy
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George Marcus
Globalism
Globalization
Harvard University Press
Hegemony
Historiography
Identity politics
Ideology
Institution
Intellectual
Interdisciplinarity
Jacques Derrida
Lecture
Liberal democracy
Linguistic turn
Marxism
Michael Walzer
Modernity
Multiculturalism
Narrative
New York University
Oxford University Press
Philosopher
Philosophy
Political culture
Political economy
Political philosophy
Political science
Politician
Politics
Positivism
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Public sphere
Rational choice theory
Regime
Rhetoric
Science
Scientist
Slavery
Social history
Social science
Social theory
Society
Sociology
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Tax
Technology
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Thomas Kuhn
Thought
Unemployment
University of California Press
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691088426
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
