出版社:American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要:The modern fact could be affi liated with both specifi cs (of commerce) and their generalization (within a system which ordained the individual creditworthines of merchants and their credibility as a group). The possi-bility of such a double identity defi ned the contradiction between the par-ticular and the universal that drove the processes of rationalization (which, depending on circumstances, might be labeled "scientization" or "seculariza-tion") to produce and reproduce the structures of knowledge over time. This contradiction has constantly reappeared embedded in an array of distinctive intellectual antinomies, such as subjective-objective, anarchy/chaos-order, value-truth, agency-structure, which, although formally homologous, have taken on the tonalities of the communities of discourse in which they have been deployed