Skrydis Su Immanueliu Wallersteinu, Arba Kaip Pasaulinė Sistema Pateko Į Blaškos Zoną
A Flight with Immanuel Wallerstein: The Ways in Which the Modern World System Got Itself into the Sphere of Turbulence

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the main epistemological premises on which Immanuel Wallerstein – one of the most outstanding representatives of historical social science from the second half of the twentieth century and until this day – secures his world-systems analysis. The emergence of the conflict between natural science and the humanities as two rivaling noetic cultures is characterized. The social and historical circumstances for the separation of social science into six distinct disciplines are exposed. Finally, the reasons for the critique of contemporary social science as incapable of understanding and thus explaining the complex structural changes of the modern world system are presented. The article concludes that the epistemological premises underpinning Wallerstein’s world-systems theory can be understood properly only in connection with his deeply ethical attitude toward the world. Wallerstein engaged the world as a scholar with the intention of furthering the just causes of the struggle against the many global economic and cultural inequalities. He voiced the deep need for the transformation of the modern worldsystem into something better.

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