Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Skeleton of Theory
1. Coalitions in the Mind
2. Networks across the Generations
3. Partitioning Attention Space: The Case of Ancient Greece
Part I: Asian Paths
4. Innovation by Opposition: Ancient China
5. External and Internal Politics of the Intellectual World: India
6. Revolutions of the Organizational Base: Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China
7. Innovation through Conservatism: Japan
Conclusions to Part I: The Ingredients of Intellectual Life
Part II: Western Paths
8. Tensions of Indigenous and Imported Ideas: Islam, Judaism, Christendom
9. Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword: Medieval Christendom
10. Cross-Breeding Networks and Rapid-Discovery Science
11. Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality
12. Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base: The German University Revolution
13. The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles
14. Writers’ Markets and Academic Networks: The French Connection
Meta-Reflections
15. Sequence and Branch in the Social Production of Ideas
Epilogue: Sociological Realism
1. The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity
2. The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture
3. Keys to Figures
Notes
References
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects