Full Description
Examining 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 Wallerstein's writings.
TimeSpace is a concept developed from Wallerstein's 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 time's two overlooked modes—long enduring or eternal time, on the one hand, and, on the other, uncertainty in world-systems. He, thereby, invented a fresh innovation of historical social sciences that brought together economics, politics, and sociology.
This book is an essential volume for understanding Wallerstein's unique contributions to the understanding of the Modern World-System, which he argued came to an end after the world revolution of 1968—leaving us now in an indeterminate world of chaos. This book is thereby invaluable as a resource for researchers and students who care about the history and decline of our chaotic world.
Contents
1. TimeSpace and the Withering of World Structures (2025), Charles Lemert; Part I: Time and Global Spaces; 2. SpaceTime as the Basis of Knowledge (1997); 3. The Inventions of TimeSpace Realities (1988); 4. The Time of Space and the Space of Time: The Future of Social Science (1998); Part II: New Geopolitical Realities: 1946-1968; 5. On Progress and Transition (1983); 6. Social Change: Change is Eternal, Nothing Ever Changes (1999); 7. Time and Duration: The Unexcluded Middle or Reflections on Braudel & Prigogine (1998); Part III: The Unraveling of the Modern World-System: 1968-1989; 8. 1968, Revolution in the World-System (1989); 9. America and the World: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow (1989); 10. 1989, The Continuation of 1968 (1992), with Giovanni Arrighi & Terrance Hopkins; Part IV: TimeSpace and Future Social Sciences: After 1998; 11. The Rise and Future Demise of the Capitalist System (1974); 12. The Imminent End of Capitalism and Unifying Social Sciences (2008); 13. Historical Origins of World-Systems Analysis (2004); Part V: Conclusion: What Future?; 14. The Dilemmas of Open Space (2004); 15. Precipitate Decline and the Advent of Multipolarity (2007); 16. Global Possibilities, 1990-2025 (1996); 17. Wither the TimeSpace of Politics (2025), Charles Lemert
