Schools of Thought : : Twenty-Five Years of Interpretive Social Science / / ed. by Debra Keates, Joan Wallach Scott.

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 anniversar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 2 tables, 3 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. School Building
  • PART ONE Blurred Genres: Reflections on Disciplinary Practices
  • CHAPTER 1 Political Theory after the Enlightenment Project
  • CHAPTER 2 Twenty-five Years of Social Science and Social Change
  • CHAPTER 3 Economic History as a Cure for Economics
  • CHAPTER 4 Can the "Other" of Philosophy Speak?
  • CHAPTER 5 Reflections on Interdisciplinarity
  • PART TWO The State of the Art: New Methods and New Questions
  • CHAPTER 6 After History?
  • CHAPTER 7 The Global Situation
  • CHAPTER 8 Modernity and Identity
  • CHAPTER 9 The Role of Norms and Law in Economics: An Essay on Political Economy
  • CHAPTER 10 Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization
  • CHAPTER 11 Science as Alchemy
  • PART THREE Thick Description: Field Overviews and Institutional History
  • CHAPTER 12 Whatever Happened to the "Social" in Social History?
  • CHAPTER 13 Postcolonialism and Its Discontents: History, Anthropology, and Postcolonial Critique
  • CHAPTER 14 Structure, Contingency, and Choice: A Comparison of Trends and Tendencies in Political Science
  • CHAPTER 15 Interdisciplinarity at New York University
  • PART FOUR The World in Pieces: Political Philosophy and World Governance
  • CHAPTER 16 Political Theory and Moral Responsibility
  • CHAPTER 17 A "Moral Core" Solution to the Prisoners' Dilemma
  • CHAPTER 18 Reinterpreting Risk
  • CHAPTER 19 Retrotopia: Critical Reason Turns Primitive
  • CHAPTER 20 International Society: What Is the Best that We Can Do?
  • AUTHOR NOTES