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THE SOCIOLOGY

OF PHILOSOPHIES

THE SOCIOLOGY

OF PHILOSOPHIES

A Global Theory

of Intellectual Change

£

RANDALL COLLINS

THE BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England

Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America Fourth printing, 2002

First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2000

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Collins, Randall, 1941–

The sociology of philosophies : a global theory of intellectual change / Randall Collins.

p.cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-674-81647-1 (cloth)

ISBN 0-674-00187-7 (pbk.)

1.Knowledge, Sociology of. 2. Philosophy—History.

3.Comparative civilization. 4. Philosophers—Social networks.

I.Title.

BD175.C565 1998 306.4209—dc21 97-18446

In every hair there are an infinite number of lions, and in addition all the single hairs, together with their infinite number of lions, in turn enter into a single hair. In this way the progression is infinite, like the jewels in Celestial Lord Indra’s net.

Fa-tsang (T’ang Dynasty)

Homer was wrong in saying, “Would that strife might perish from among gods and humans.” For if that were to occur, all things would cease to exist.

Heraclitus

Contents

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction 1

THE SKELETON OF THEORY

1

Coalitions in the Mind

 

19

 

General Theory of Interaction Rituals

20

 

The Interaction Rituals of Intellectuals

24

 

The Opportunity Structure

37

 

 

The Sociology of Thinking

46

 

2

Networks across the Generations

54

 

The Rarity of Major Creativity 54

 

Who Will Be Remembered? 58

What Do Minor Philosophers Do? 61

The Structural Mold of Intellectual Life: Long-Term Chains

in China and Greece

64

The Importance of Personal Ties 68

The Structural Crunch

74

3 Partitioning Attention Space:

 

The Case of Ancient Greece

80

The Intellectual Law of Small Numbers

81

The Forming of an Argumentative Network and the Launching of Greek Philosophy 82

How Long Do Organized Schools Last? 89 Small Numbers Crisis and the Creativity of the

Post-Socratic Generation 97

viii Contents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Hellenistic Realignment of Positions

103

 

 

The Roman Base and the Second Realignment

109

The Stimulus of Religious Polarization

119

 

 

The Showdown of Christianity versus the Pagan United

Front

123

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two Kinds of Creativity

131

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF

 

 

 

INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part I: Asian Paths

 

 

 

 

4 Innovation by Opposition: Ancient China

137

The Sequence of Oppositions in Ancient China

137

Centralization in the Han Dynasty: The Forming of Official

Confucianism and Its Opposition

153

 

 

The Changing Landscape of External Supports

158

The Gentry-Official Culture: The Pure Conversation

Movement and the Dark Learning

168

 

 

Class Culture and the Freezing of Creativity in Indigenous

Chinese Philosophy

174

 

 

 

 

5 External and Internal Politics of the Intellectual

World: India

 

 

 

 

177

Sociopolitical Bases of Religious Ascendancies

178

Religious Bases of Philosophical Factions: Divisions and

Recombination of Vedic Ritualists

193

 

 

The Crowded Competition of the Sages

195

 

 

Monastic Movements and the Ideal of Meditative

Mysticism

200

 

 

 

 

 

Anti-monastic Opposition and the Forming of Hindu Lay

Culture

208

 

 

 

 

 

Partitioning the Intellectual Attention Space 213

The Buddhist-Hindu Watershed 224

 

 

 

 

The Post-Buddhist Resettlement of Intellectual

 

 

Territories

255

 

 

 

 

 

Scholasticism and Syncretism in the Decline of Hindu

Philosophy

268

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents ix

6 Revolutions of the Organizational Base:

 

Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China

272

Buddhism and the Organizational Transformation of

Medieval China

274

 

 

 

Intellectual Foreign Relations of Buddhism, Taoism, and

Confucianism 279

 

 

 

Creative Philosophies in Chinese Buddhism

281

The Ch’an (Zen) Revolution

290

 

 

The Neo-Confucian Revival

299

 

 

The Weak Continuity of Chinese Metaphysics 316

7 Innovation through Conservatism: Japan

322

Japan as Transformer of Chinese Buddhism

326

The Inflation of Zen Enlightenment and the

 

Scholasticization of Koan

341

 

 

Tokugawa as a Modernizing Society

347

 

The Divergence of Secularist Naturalism and

 

Neoconservatism

361

 

 

 

Conservatism and Intellectual Creativity 367

The Myth of the Opening of Japan

369

 

Conclusions to Part I:

 

 

 

The Ingredients of Intellectual Life

 

379

COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF

INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES

Part II: Western Paths

8 Tensions of Indigenous and Imported Ideas:

Islam, Judaism, Christendom

387

Philosophy within a Religious Context

388

The Muslim World: An Intellectual Community Anchored

by a Politicized Religion 392

 

Four Factions 395

 

Realignment of Factions in the 900s

407

The Culmination of the Philosophical Networks: Ibn Sina

and al-Ghazali 417

 

Routinization of Sufis and Scholastics

423

Spain as the Hinge of Medieval Philosophy 428

Coda: Are Idea Imports a Substitute for Creativity? 446

x Contents

9 Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword:

 

Medieval Christendom

 

 

 

 

 

 

451

The Organizational Bases of Christian Thought

455

The Inner Autonomy of the University

463

 

 

The Breakup of Theological Philosophy

485

 

 

Intellectuals as Courtiers: The Humanists

497

 

 

The Question of Intellectual Stagnation

501

 

 

Coda: The Intellectual Demoralization of the Late

 

Twentieth Century

521

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 Cross-Breeding Networks and

 

 

 

 

 

Rapid-Discovery Science

 

 

 

 

 

523

A Cascade of Creative Circles

526

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Connections of the Scientific Revolution 532

Three Revolutions and Their Networks

556

 

 

The Mathematicians

557

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Scientific Revolution

559

 

 

 

 

 

The Philosophical Revolution: Bacon and Descartes

562

11 Secularization and Philosophical

 

 

 

 

Meta-territoriality

 

 

 

 

 

 

570

Secularization of the Intellectual Base

573

 

 

Geopolitics and Cleavages within Catholicism

574

Reemergence of the Metaphysical Field

587

 

 

Jewish Millennialism and Spinoza’s Religion of

 

 

Reason 589

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leibniz’s Mathematical Metaphysics

591

 

 

Rival Philosophies upon the Space of Religious

 

 

Toleration

594

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deism and the Independence of Value Theory

600

The Reversal of Alliances

603

 

 

 

 

 

Anti-modernist Modernism and the Anti-scientific

 

Opposition

609

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Triumph of Epistemology

613

 

 

 

 

12 Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base:

 

 

The German University Revolution

 

 

 

618

The German Idealist Movement

622

 

 

 

 

Philosophy Captures the University 638

 

 

 

Idealism as Ideology of the University Revolution

650

Political Crisis as the Outer Layer of Causality

661

The Spread of the University Revolution

663

 

 

Contents xi

13 The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as

Philosophical Puzzles

688

Meta-territories upon the Science-Philosophy Border 694

The Social Invention of Higher Mathematics 697

The Logicism of Russell and Wittgenstein

709

The Vienna Circle as a Nexus of Struggles

717

The Ordinary Language Reaction against Logical

Formalism 731

 

Wittgenstein’s Tortured Path 734

From Mathematical Foundations Crisis to Husserl’s

Phenomenology 737

Heidegger: Catholic Anti-modernism Intersects the

Phenomenological Movement 743

 

Division of the Phenomenological Movement

748

The Ideology of the Continental-Anglo Split

751

14

Writers’ Markets and Academic Networks:

 

 

The French Connection

754

 

The Secularization Struggle and French Popular

 

Philosophy 757

 

 

Existentialists as Literary-Academic Hybrids

764

 

Envoi: Into the Fog of the Present 782

 

 

META-REFLECTIONS

 

15

Sequence and Branch in the Social Production

 

of Ideas

787

The Continuum of Abstraction and Reflexivity 787

Three Pathways: Cosmological, Epistemological-

Metaphysical, Mathematical 800

The Future of Philosophy 856

Epilogue: Sociological Realism

858

The Sociological Cogito 858

 

Mathematics as Communicative Operations

862

The Objects of Rapid-Discovery Science 870

Why Should Intellectual Networks Undermine

Themselves? 875

xii Contents

 

 

Appendices

 

 

1.

The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity

883

2.

The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture

890

3.

Keys to Figures

893

 

Notes 947

 

 

References 1035

 

 

Index of Persons

1069

 

Index of Subjects

1089

 

Figures, Maps, and Tables

FIGURES

2.1 Network of Chinese Philosophers, 400–200 b.c.e.

55

2.2Network of Greek Philosophers from Socrates to

Chrysippus

56

3.1Forming the Network of Greek Philosophers,

600–465 b.c.e.

83

3.2Centralization of the Greek Network in Athens,

465–365 b.c.e.

88

3.3Organized Schools of Greek Philosophy,

600 b.c.e.–100 c.e.

91

3.4Proliferation and Recombination of the Greek

Schools, 400–200 b.c.e.

96

3.5Realignment of Schools in the Roman Conquest,

 

200 b.c.e.–1 c.e.

110

3.6

Syncretisms and Skepticism, 1–200 c.e.

117

3.7

Showdown of Neoplatonists and Christians, 200–400

124

3.8

Neoplatonists under Christian Triumph, 400–600

130

4.1Emergence of Chinese Network, 500–365 b.c.e.:

Rival Confucian Lineages, Mohists, Primitivists

139

4.2 Intersecting Centers of the Warring States,

 

365–200 b.c.e.

144

4.3Han Dynasty Transition and Forming of Official

Confucianism, 235 b.c.e.–100 c.e.

159

4.4Later Han Dynasty Disintegration and the Dark

Learning, 100–300 c.e.

170

5.1Indian Network, 800–400 b.c.e.: The Founding

 

Rivalries

201

5.2

India, 400 b.c.e.– 400 c.e.: Age of Anonymous Texts

210

5.3

Lineages of Buddhist Sects, 400 b.c.e.–900 c.e.

214

5.4

Conflict of Buddhist and Hindu Schools, 400–900 c.e.

225

xiv Figures, Maps, and Tables

5.5Hindu Oppositions, 900–1500: Nyaya Realists,

Advaita Idealists, Vaishnava Dualists

258

6.1Taoist Church and Imported Buddhist Schools,

 

300–500

284

6.2

T’ien-t’ai, Yogacara, Hua-yen, 500–800

287

6.3

Cascade of Ch’an (Zen) Schools, 635–935

294

6.4Neo-Confucian Movement and the Winnowing of

Zen, 935–1265

300

6.5Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Idealist

Movement, 1435–1565

315

7.1Network of Japanese Philosophers, 600–1100:

 

Founding of Tendai and Shingon

328

7.2

Expansion of Pure Land and Zen, 1100–1400

334

7.3

Zen Artists and Tea Masters, 1400–1600

340

7.4Tokugawa Confucian and National Learning Schools,

 

1600–1835

351

7.5

Meiji Westernizers and the Kyoto School, 1835–1935

373

8.1

Islamic and Jewish Philosophers and Scientists,

 

 

700–935: Basra and Baghdad Schools

396

8.2AshÀarites, Greek Falasifa, and the Syntheses of Ibn

 

Sina and al-Ghazali, 935–1100

409

8.3

Mystics, Scientists, and Logicians, 1100–1400

424

8.4

Islamic and Jewish Philosophers in Spain, 900–1065

435

8.5

Spain, 1065–1235: The Hinge of the Hinge

438

9.1

Islamic Factions and Combinations

452

9.2

Proliferation of Cistercian Monasteries, 1098–1500

457

9.3

Christian Philosophers, 1000–1200: Forming the

 

 

Argumentative Network

464

9.4

Franciscan and Dominican Rivalries, 1200–1335

470

9.5Jewish Philosophers within Christendom, 1135–1535:

 

Maimonidists, Averroists, and Kabbalists

478

9.6

Scholastics, Mystics, Humanists, 1335–1465

489

9.7

Reformers, Metaphysicians, Skeptics, 1465–1600

498

10.1European Network: The Cascade of Circles,

1600–1735

527

10.2Network Overlap of Greek Mathematicians and

Philosophers, 600 b.c.e.–600 c.e.

544

11.1French and British Network during the

Enlightenment, 1735–1800

607

12.1German Network, 1735–1835: Berlin-Königsberg and

Jena-Weimar

624

12.2Network of American Philosophers, 1800–1935:

German Imports, Idealists, Pragmatists

673

Figures, Maps, and Tables xv

13.1German Network, 1835–1900: Neo-Kantians,

Historicists, Positivists, Psychologists

690

13.2British Philosophers and Mathematicians, 1800–1935: University Reform, Idealist Movement,

Trinity-Bloomsbury Circle

710

13.3Realignment of the Networks in the Generation

 

of 1900

718

13.4

Neo-Kantians and the Vienna Circle

720

13.5

Physicists’ Methodological Controversies

723

13.6

Network of Mathematical Logic and Foundations

726

13.7

Vienna Circle: Composite Network

728

13.8Network of Phenomenologists and Existentialists,

1865–1965

740

14.1 Network of French Philosophers, 1765–1935

759

14.2Young Hegelians and Religious/Political Radicals,

1835–1900: Die Freien and the Nihilists

766

E.1 Sung Dynasty Celestial Element Algebra

864

MAPS

 

Philosophical Schools in the Mediterranean Region

84

Intellectual Centers in the Warring States, 350 b.c.e.

142

Han Dynasty, 200 b.c.e.–200 c.e.

153

Second Period of Division, 250 c.e.

161

Ganges States, 500 b.c.e.

179

Height of Maurya Empire, 250 b.c.e.

181

Balance of Power, 150 c.e.

183

Gupta Empire, 400 c.e.

185

Eve of Mogul Invasion, 1525

192

Principal Chinese Buddhist Monasteries

282

Intellectual and Religious Centers of Japan

330

Height of the ‘Abbasid Caliphate, 800 c.e.

393

Cathedral Schools of Northern France, 1100 c.e.

514

Geopolitical Crisis of the Spanish-Habsburg Empire, 1559

576

German Universities, 1348–1900

648

TABLES

 

2.1 Distribution of Philosophers for All Networks

77

9.1 University Foundations and Failures, 1000–1600

517

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