From Hegel to the Sociology of Knowledge
Contested Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2351499 |
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| Authors | Austin Harrington (0000-0003-4635-2741, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 125-133 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02632760122052075 |
| OpenAlex | W2159385148 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The article examines Randall Collins's magnum opus, The Sociology of Philosphies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change in relation to a number of discourses bearing on the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of philosophies, from Hegel and 19th-century historicism to Mannheim, Foucault, Bourdieu and Gillian Rose's Hegel Contra Sociology. The article explicates Collins's dual theory of intellectual networks and institutional conflict as factors in the explanation of intellectual change. The article interprets Collins's work as a classic application of Durkheimian sociological principles to the analysis of knowledge. However, the article argues that Collins is less successful in accounting for the internal normative motives of inquiry and the problem of what Hegel saw as the claims of reason in history based on the orientation to truth
Epistemology · Hegelianism · Historicism · History of sociology · Magnum opus · Narrative · Normative · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of culture · Sociology of knowledge · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
| Highly cited | No |
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