Anthropology. Estrangement, Intimacy, and the Objects of Anthropology

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction Positivism and Its Others in the Social Sciences 1
5. Part one. Positivism and Nonpositivism in Twentieth-Century Social Science
6. Anthropology. Estrangement, Intimacy, and the Objects of Anthropology 59
7. Area studies/asian studies. The Trick of Words: Asian Studies, Translation, and the Problems of Knowledge 89
8. Economics. Economists and the Economy in the Twentieth Century 126
9. Economics/philosophy of science. How Positivism Made a Pact with the Postwar Social Sciences in the United States 142
10. History. The Political Unconscious of Social and Cultural History, or, Confessions of a Former Quantitative Historian 173
11. Political science/political theory. Defining ‘‘Theory’’ in Postwar Political Science 207
12. Sociology and economics. Beware Trojan Horses Bearing Social Capital: How Privatization Turned Solidarity into a Bowling Team 233
13. Sociology. Scientific Authority and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Plausibility of Positivism in U.S. Sociology since 275
14. Part two. Alternatives to Positivism in the Human Sciences
15. Philosophy and critical realism. Critical Realism 327
16. Philosophy and standpoint theory. Negotiating with the Positivist Legacy: New Social Justice Movements and a Standpoint Politics of Method 346
17. Economics and critical realism. A Perspective on Modern Economics Tony Lawson 366
18. Process and temporality in sociology. The Idea of Outcome in U.S. Sociology Andrew Abbott 393
19. Psychoanalysis as critique. Psychoanalysis and the Theory of the Subject 427
20. Sociology of science. The Real and the Imaginary in Economic Methodology 451
21. Making sense in and of political science. Facts, Values, and ‘‘Real’’ Numbers 470
22. Being undisciplined. On Your Marx: From Cultural History to the History of Society 496
23. Conclusion. Provincializing the Social Sciences 508
24. References 527
25. Contributors 583
26. Index 587
27. Citation Index 607