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.
- ISBN10 159213243X
- ISBN13 9781592132430
- Publish Date 26 March 2004 (first published 1 October 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 224
- Language English