1st Edition
Knowledge Matters The Structures of Knowledge and Crisis of the Modern World-System
By Richard E. Lee
Copyright 2010
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Economic changes and political changes which emerged with the modern capitalist world-economy were accompanied in the sociocultural domain by changes in the structures of knowledge. These included the hierarchical separation of the realm of facts from that of values, institutionalized as a division between the sciences and the humanities. The social sciences responded to contradictions inherent... Read more
1: WHAT WORLD DO WE KNOW?: World-systems analysis, the knowledge movement; 2: HOW DO WE KNOW?: The structures of knowledge, the third arena of historical capitalism; 3: CONFOUNDING THE DISCIPLINES: The crisis of the two cultures; 4: A Historical Social Science
Biography
Richard E. Lee
