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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Apter, David E.,; Basu, Kaushik,; Butler, Judith,; Dirks, Nicholas B.,; Elshtain, Jean Bethke,; Galison, Peter,; Geertz, Clifford,; Lepenies, Wolf,; Mansbridge, Jane,; Pickering, Andrew,; Poovey, Maty,; Rev, Istvan,; Rosaldo, Renato,; Rustin, Michael,; Scott, Joan W.,; Sewell, William H.,; Skinner, Quentin,; Taylor, Charles,; Tsing, Anna,; Walzer, Michael,; Wright, Gavin,
• HerausgeberIn: Keates, Debra,; Scott, Joan Wallach,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 2 tables, 3 line illus.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691228389; 9783110442502; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691228389?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. The authors, who represent a wide range of disciplines, are all associated with the School's emphasis on interpretive social science, which rejects models from the hard sciences and opts instead for a humanistic approach to social inquiry. Following a preface by Clifford Geertz, whose profound insights have helped shape the School from the outset, the essays are arranged in four sections. The first offers personal reflections on disciplinary changes; the second features essays advocating changes in focus or methodology; the third presents field overviews and institutional history; while the fourth addresses the link between political philosophy and world governance. Two recurring themes are the uses (and pitfalls) of interdisciplinary studies and the relation between scholarship and social change. This book will be rewarding for anyone interested in how changing trends in scholarship shape the understanding of our social worlds. The contributors include David Apter, Kaushik Basu, Judith Butler, Nicholas Dirks, Jean Elshtain, Peter Galison, Wolf Lepenies, Jane Mansbridge, Andrew Pickering, Mary Poovey, Istvan Rev, Renato Rosaldo, Michael Rustin, Joan W. Scott, William H. Sewell, Jr., Quentin Skinner, Charles Taylor, Anna Tsing, Michael Walzer, and Gavin Wright.