The contributors to The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass outline the present transformations of the social sciences, explore their connections with critical humanities, analyze the challenges of alternate paradigms, and interrogate recent endeavors to move beyond the human.
The contributors to The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass outline the present transformations of the social sciences, explore their connections with critical humanities, analyze the challenges of alternate paradigms, and interrogate recent endeavors to move beyond the human.
Introduction: Toward a Social Science of the Social Sciences / Didier Fassin and George Steinmetz 1 Part One. Disciplines in the Making 1. Concept-Quake: From the History of Science to the Historical Sociology of Social Science / George Steinmetz 21 2. Spaces of Real Possibilities: Counterfactuals and the Impact of Donors on the Social Sciences / Álvaro Maorcillo Laiz 81 3. The Social Life of Concepts: or, How to Study the Idea of Creativity? / Bregje F. Van Eekelen 107 4. Epistemological Crises in Legal Theory: The (Ir)Rationality of Balancing / Carel Smith 129 5. The Reinvention of Sociology: Into the Trenches of Fieldwork at the Time of the Algerian Liberation War / Amín Pérez 147 Part Two. From the National to the Global 6. How Sociology Shaped Postwar Poland and How Stalinization Shaped Sociology / Agata Zysiak 175 7. The Public Anthropology of Violence in India / Chitralekha 195 8. Challenging Objectivity in Japan’s Long 1968 / Miriam Kingsberg Kadia 218 9. How Political Commitment Delineates Social Scientific Knowledge / Kristoffer Kropp 240 10. Making Sense of Globalizing Social Science / Johan Heilbron 262 Part Three. Exploring Borders and Boundaries 11. Critical Humanities and the Unsettling of the Sociological Field: Is There a French Exception? / Jean-Louis Fabiani 287 12. Recovering Subalternity in the Humanities and Social Sciences / Peter D. Thomas 310 13. Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion / John Lardas Modern 328 14. Cooperative Primates and Competitive Primatologists: Prosociality and Polemics in a Nonhuman Social Science / Nicolas Langlitz 351 15. The Rise and Rise of Posthumanism: Will It Spell the End of the Human Sciences? / Didier Fassin 368 Contributors 393 Index 397
Introduction: Toward a Social Science of the Social Sciences / Didier Fassin and George Steinmetz 1 Part One. Disciplines in the Making 1. Concept-Quake: From the History of Science to the Historical Sociology of Social Science / George Steinmetz 21 2. Spaces of Real Possibilities: Counterfactuals and the Impact of Donors on the Social Sciences / Álvaro Maorcillo Laiz 81 3. The Social Life of Concepts: or, How to Study the Idea of Creativity? / Bregje F. Van Eekelen 107 4. Epistemological Crises in Legal Theory: The (Ir)Rationality of Balancing / Carel Smith 129 5. The Reinvention of Sociology: Into the Trenches of Fieldwork at the Time of the Algerian Liberation War / Amín Pérez 147 Part Two. From the National to the Global 6. How Sociology Shaped Postwar Poland and How Stalinization Shaped Sociology / Agata Zysiak 175 7. The Public Anthropology of Violence in India / Chitralekha 195 8. Challenging Objectivity in Japan’s Long 1968 / Miriam Kingsberg Kadia 218 9. How Political Commitment Delineates Social Scientific Knowledge / Kristoffer Kropp 240 10. Making Sense of Globalizing Social Science / Johan Heilbron 262 Part Three. Exploring Borders and Boundaries 11. Critical Humanities and the Unsettling of the Sociological Field: Is There a French Exception? / Jean-Louis Fabiani 287 12. Recovering Subalternity in the Humanities and Social Sciences / Peter D. Thomas 310 13. Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion / John Lardas Modern 328 14. Cooperative Primates and Competitive Primatologists: Prosociality and Polemics in a Nonhuman Social Science / Nicolas Langlitz 351 15. The Rise and Rise of Posthumanism: Will It Spell the End of the Human Sciences? / Didier Fassin 368 Contributors 393 Index 397
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