Preface

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

THE SKELETON OF THEORY

Coalitions in the Mind

Networks across the Generations

Partitioning Attention Space: The Case of Ancient Greece

COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES
PART I: ASIAN PATHS

Innovation by Opposition: Ancient China

External and Internal Politics of the Intellectual World: India

Revolutions of the Organizational Base: Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China

Innovation through Conservatism: Japan

Conclusions to Part I: The Ingredients of Intellectual Life

COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES
PART II: WESTERN PATHS

Tensions of Indigenous and Imported Ideas: Islam, Judaism, Christendom

Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword: Medieval Christendom

Cross-Breeding Networks and Rapid-Discovery Science

Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality

Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base: The German University Revolution

The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles

Writers, Markets and Academic Networks: The French Connection

META-REFLECTIONS

Sequence and Branch in the Social Production of Ideas

Epilogue: Sociological Realism

Appendix 1: The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity

Appendix 2: The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture

Appendix 3: Keys to Figures

Notes

References

Index of Persons

Index of Subjects