Introduction: The Uncertainties of TimePart I. The Structures of Knowledge1. For Science, Against Scientism: The Dilemmas of Contemporary Knowledge Production2. Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century3. The End of Certainties in the Social Sciences4. Braudel and Interscience: A Preacher to Empty Pews?5. Time and Duration: The Unexcluded Middle, or Reflections on Braudel and Prigogine6. The Itinerary of World-Systems Analysis, or How to Resist Becoming a TheoryPart II. Dilemmas of the Disciplines7. History in Search of Science8. Writing History9. Global Culture(s): Salvation, Menace, or Myth?10. From Sociology to Historical Social Science: Prospects and Obstacles11. Anthropology, Sociology, and Other Dubious DisciplinesAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

"Immanuel Wallerstein is both a redoubtable world historian and visionary prophet. Such a combination is unusual...[and] makes him a commanding figure, whose rhetorical address, radical ideas, and remarkable erudition challenge ordinary, established patterns of professional discourse."—William H. McNeill, Diplomatic History