Unthinking social science : the limits of nineteenth-century paradigms /
"In this, new edition of a classic work -- now with a new preface -- on the roots of social scientific thinking, Immanuel Wallerstein develops a thorough-going critique of the legacy of nineteenth-century social science for social thought in the new millennium. We have to "unthink"--R...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why Unthink?
- Part I. The Social Sciences: From Genesis to Bifurcation. 1. The French Revolution as a World-Historical Event
- - 2. Crises: The World-Economy, the Movements, and the Ideologies
- Part II. The Concept of Development. 3. The Industrial Revolution: Cui Bono?
- - 4. Economic Theories and Historical Disparities of Development
- - 5. Societal Development, or Development of the World-System?
- - 6. The Myrdal Legacy: Racism and Underdevelopment as Dilemmas
- - 7. Development: Lodestar or Illusion?
- Part III. Concepts of Time and Space. 8. A Comment on Epistemology: What is Africa?
- - 9. Does India Exist?
- - 10. The Inventions of TimeSpace Realities: Towards an Understanding of our Historical Systems
- Part IV. Revisiting Marx. 11. Marx and Underdevelopment
- - 12. Marxisms as Utopias: Evolving Ideologies
- Part V. Revisiting Braudel. 13. Fernand Braudel, Historian, "homme de la conjoncture"
- - 14. Capitalism: The Enemy of the Market?
- - 15. Braudel on Capitalism, or Everything Upside Down
- - 16. Beyond Annales?
- Part VI. World-Systems Analysis as Unthinking. 17. Historical Systems as Complex Systems
- - 18. Call for a Debate about the Paradigm
- - 19. A Theory of Economic History in Place of Economic Theory?
- - 20. World-Systems Analysis: The Second Phase.