Uncertainties of Time by Immanuel Wallerstein, Charles Lemert - 9781041084990

Uncertainties of TimeThe Past and Future of TimeSpace\nAuthor(s): Immanuel Wallerstein, Charles Lemert\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041084990, 978-1041084990\nSynopsis\nExamining the concept of TimeSpace in the work of Immanuel Wallerstein and its crucial role within world-systems analysis, Uncertainties of Time brings together important but previously hard-to-access material from Wallersteins writings.\n\nTimeSpace is a concept developed from his earliest days in the 1970s until well into the twenty-first century, drawing from the historian Fernand Braudel and the chemist Ilya Prigogine to rethink historical times two overlooked modeslong enduring or eternal time, on the one hand, and, on the other, uncertainty in world-systems. Wallerstein, thereby, invented a fresh version of historical social science that brought together the customary disciplines associated with economics, politics, and sociology.\n\nThi.