By Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

ISBN-10: 1592132421

ISBN-13: 9781592132423

ISBN-10: 159213243X

ISBN-13: 9781592132430

The Uncertainties of information extends Immanuel Wallerstein's decade-long paintings of elucidating the trouble of information in present highbrow concept. He argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes wisdom is a sure bet and that it could support us clarify the social global. this can be fallacious, he indicates. as an alternative, Wallerstein bargains a brand new notion of the social sciences, one whose method makes it possible for uncertainties.

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