Uncertainties of Knowledge
By (author): "Immanuel Wallerstein"
ISBN159213243X
ISBN139781592132430
AsinUncertainties of Knowledge
Original titleThe Uncertainties of Knowledge (Politics, History, and Social Change)
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.\