Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities: The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theorists
Editors: Sapiro, Gisèle, Santoro, Marco, Baert, Patrick (Eds.)
- 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
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.
Table of contents
Introduction
The International Circulation of Structuralism: Between Appropriations and Rejections
The Reception of Structuralism in Argentina (1960s–1970s)
A Case Study of the Reception of “Structuralism” in English Studies in the United Kingdom
The Importation of the “Frankfurt School” (and “Critical Theory”) in France
Crossing Disciplines Across Borders: How (British) Cultural Studies Have Been Imported (and Translated) in Italy, France, and German-Speaking Countries
The Transnational Making of a Subdiscipline: The Biarritz Conference and the Institutionalization of “Public Economics”
Globalizing Gramsci: The Resuscitation of a Repressed Intellectual
On the Edge of Disciplines: Reception of Karl Polanyi in France (1974–2014)
The Troubled Legitimation of Hannah Arendt in the German and Italian Intellectual Field: 1962–2015
From Social Theorist to Global Intellectual: The International Reception of Bourdieu’s Work and Its Effect on the Author
Foucault in Hungary: The Case of a Peculiar (Non-)Reception
The Reception of a “Traveling Theory”: Edward Said’s Citations in the French Academic Publishing Space
Can the Subaltern Speak (in French)? Reception of Gayatri Spivak in France
Correction to: Globalizing Gramsci: The Resuscitation of a Repressed Intellectual
About the authors
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.
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
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Copyright
2020
Number of Pages
XXVIII, 405
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030350239