The Uncertainties of Knowledge

The Uncertainties of Knowledge

ISBN: 159213243X

ISBN 13: 9781592132430

Publication Date: 2004

Author: Immanuel Wallerstein

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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.\