Overview
- Offers an interdisciplinary overview of major intellectual developments in the social and human sciences from the mid-twentieth century onwards
- Provides a comparative perspective that maps the dissemination and reception of paradigms, theories and controversies across a broad range of disciplinary and national contexts
- Marks an important contribution to the emerging field of Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences
- Cover image © Jörg Langhans, "Les carnets de Malte Laurids Brigge de Rainer Maria Rilke" http://www.jorglanghans.com/
Part of the book series: Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences (SHSSHS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Circulation of Paradigms and Theories
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The International Reception of Key Thinkers
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Reception studies
- the linguistic turn
- postmodernism
- postcolonialism
- deconstruction
- Structuralism
- New Humanism
- Marxism
- Semiotics
- rational choice theory
- symbolic interactionism
- network analysis
- neo-institutionalism
- Antonio Gramsci
- Hannah Arendt
- Karl Polanyi
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Michel Foucault
- Edward Said
- Gayatri Spivak
About this book
This edited collection analyses the reception of a selection of key thinkers, and the dissemination of paradigms, theories and controversies across the social sciences and humanities since 1945. It draws on data collected from textbooks, curricula, interviews, archives, and references in scientific journals, from a broad range of countries and disciplines to provide an international and comparative perspective that will shed fresh light on the circulation of ideas in the social and human sciences.
The contributions cover high-profile disputes on methodology, epistemology, and research practices, and the international reception of theorists that have abiding and interdisciplinary relevance, such as: Antonio Gramsci, Hannah Arendt, Karl Polanyi, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak. This important work will be a valuable resource to scholars of the history of ideas and the philosophy of the social sciences; in addition to researchers in the fields of social, cultural and literary theory.
Reviews
“The international travel of ideas gives them their distinctive shape as well as impact – and this very international examination of how ideas circulate both traces particular paths and cases and advances the project of understanding the international character of humanities and social science.” — Craig Calhoun, Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University, USA
“Theories travel, but who sends them on their way, in which vehicles, under what flags? Ideas on the Move provides richly inspiring answers to these compelling questions. Its detailed maps of the mobility of cultural studies and critical theory, structuralism and public economics, and its dense accounts of authorial itineraries, from Arendt and Bourdieu to Said and Spivak, exemplify some of the most creative recent work in intellectual sociology and the social history of ideas.” —David Armitage, Professor of History at Harvard University, USA
“Ideas on the Move demonstrates how some of the most influential contemporary theories and authors have been exported, transformed and used. In particular, it shows how these processes can be explained by integrating in a coherent, heuristic and transdisciplinary way hypotheses and tools elaborated by different traditions such as field theory, center-periphery framework, network analysis, comparative approach and transnational perspective.”— Anna Boschetti, Professor of French Literature, University of Venice, Italy
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at the EHESS and Research Director at the CNRS, France.
Marco Santoro is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bologna, Italy.
Patrick Baert is Professor of Social Theory at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Book Subtitle: The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theorists
Editors: Gisèle Sapiro, Marco Santoro, Patrick Baert
Series Title: Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35024-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35023-9Published: 07 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35026-0Published: 07 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35024-6Published: 06 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4919
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 405
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Theory, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sociology, general