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The sociology of philosophies
a global theory of intellectual change
By Collins, Randall
- ISBN
- 978-0-67481-647-3
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1998
This astonishing book testifies to decades of research through the greater part of philosophy--East and West. Collins, a University of Pennsylvania sociologist who has written many basic theoretical works (Sociological Insight, Oxford Univ., 1992) attacks myths of the origin and spread of ideas about knowledge and the world. He demolishes at least two. One is that ideas flow ready-made from t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
