Divided Knowledge: Across Disciplines, Across Cultures

Divided Knowledge presents nine of the keynote papers prepared for the historic Beijing Symposium sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). In this collection, as in the symposium, the disciplines of sociology, political science, philosophy, literary theory and history are included as well as the interdisciplinary fields of public policy, area studies and business management. The articles, as well as addressing the need for renewed scholarship in areas (political science and sociology) previously forbidden in China, represent the predominant themes of the Symposium: the fragmentations of fields of knowledge in the West and consequent efforts to integrate them for application to social problems; and the universality of knowledge, its concepts, theories and applications. Given the events of June 1989 in Tiananmen Square, the issues for scholarship raised in this books are now more urgent than ever before.Easton, David is the author of 'Divided Knowledge: Across Disciplines, Across Cultures', published 1991 under ISBN 9780803940390 and ISBN 0803940394.