The Uncertainties of Knowledge

Introduction: The Uncertainties of Time Part I. The Structures of Knowledge 1. For Science, Against Scientism: The Dilemmas of Contemporary Knowledge Production 2. Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century 3. The End of Certainties in the Social Sciences 4. Braudel and Interscience: A Preacher to Empty Pews? 5. Time and Duration: The Unexcluded Middle, or Reflections on Braudel and Prigogine 6. The Itinerary of World-Systems Analysis, or How to Resist Becoming a Theory Part II. Dilemmas of the Disciplines 7. History in Search of Science 8. Writing History 9. Global Culture(s): Salvation, Menace, or Myth? 10. From Sociology to Historical Social Science: Prospects and Obstacles 11. Anthropology, Sociology, and Other Dubious Disciplines Acknowledgments Notes References Index