Time, Space, and Their Knowledge: The Times and Place of the World and Other Systems

At two hours in length, Immanuel Wallerstein s Presidential Address to the XIVth World Congress of Sociology in Montreal on July 26, 1998, was almost as that of a Secretary General s Report. Although long, it nonetheless managed to spellbind a most undisciplined audience of innumerable factions through the speech s unique combination of audacity, erudition and circumspection. The theme and title were The Heritage of Sociology, The Promise of Social Science. The address was the outgoing President s conclusion to a worldwide congressional discussion he had initiated; however, neither the heritage of sociology nor the promise of social science is a ?nite inquiry. My contribution here is thus meant to continue that debate.

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