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"""The social sciences are caught in an internecine web of internal debates, making the enterprise largely irrelevant to the vast majority of human life. This fact is brilliantly captured in A Dying Fire, in which Professor Kléber Ghimire insightfully describes the causes and consequences of the social sciences' collective navel-gazing. Yet he does so not as a radical, eclectic project, but as an attempt to generate critical thinking essential to ensure continued relevance of these fields of study. De-centering Europe and North America is a vital step towards re-centering the value of the social sciences."" -- Matthew F. Filner, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Association President, Metropolitan State University, Minnesota, USA. ""This book digs deep in the history of social sciences and critically assesses their present uncertain positions. Its' especially important contributions – and cannot be found easily elsewhere – are the reflections and analysis of the social sciences in Asian universities"". -- Vesselin Popovski, Professor of Law and Vice Dean, O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India. ""This is a highly original interdisciplinary critique of social sciences. The book is most interesting and important for academics, students or anyone who want to rethink about the current nature of social sciences’ learning."" -- Xiaoyuan Shang, Professor of Social Policy, Beijing Normal University, China. ""This book persuasively explains why the social sciences should move beyond the narrow ideas of scientism, empiricism and professionalism towards a broader concept of learning and comprehensive thinking, and further conveys astoundingly deep knowledge about the commonalities and differences in the notion of learnedness and educational traditions of Western and Asian societies."" -- Jin-Wook Shin, Professor of Sociology, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea."

This book persuasively explains why the social sciences should move beyond the narrow ideas of scientism, empiricism and professionalism towards a broader concept of learning and comprehensive thinking, and further conveys astoundingly deep knowledge about the commonalities and differences in the notion of learnedness and educational traditions of Western and Asian societies. -- Jin-Wook Shin, Professor of Sociology, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. This is a highly original interdisciplinary critique of social sciences. The book is most interesting and important for academics, students or anyone who want to rethink about the current nature of social sciences' learning. -- Xiaoyuan Shang, Professor of Social Policy, Beijing Normal University, China. This book digs deep in the history of social sciences and critically assesses their present uncertain positions. Its' especially important contributions - and cannot be found easily elsewhere - are the reflections and analysis of the social sciences in Asian universities . -- Vesselin Popovski, Professor of Law and Vice Dean, O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India. The social sciences are caught in an internecine web of internal debates, making the enterprise largely irrelevant to the vast majority of human life. This fact is brilliantly captured in A Dying Fire, in which Professor Kleber Ghimire insightfully describes the causes and consequences of the social sciences' collective navel-gazing. Yet he does so not as a radical, eclectic project, but as an attempt to generate critical thinking essential to ensure continued relevance of these fields of study. De-centering Europe and North America is a vital step towards re-centering the value of the social sciences. -- Matthew F. Filner, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Association President, Metropolitan State University, Minnesota, USA.

The social sciences are caught in an internecine web of internal debates, making the enterprise largely irrelevant to the vast majority of human life. This fact is brilliantly captured in A Dying Fire, in which Professor Kleber Ghimire insightfully describes the causes and consequences of the social sciences' collective navel-gazing. Yet he does so not as a radical, eclectic project, but as an attempt to generate critical thinking essential to ensure continued relevance of these fields of study. De-centering Europe and North America is a vital step towards re-centering the value of the social sciences. -- Matthew F. Filner, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Association President, Metropolitan State University, Minnesota, USA. This book digs deep in the history of social sciences and critically assesses their present uncertain positions. Its' especially important contributions - and cannot be found easily elsewhere - are the reflections and analysis of the social sciences in Asian universities . -- Vesselin Popovski, Professor of Law and Vice Dean, O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India. This is a highly original interdisciplinary critique of social sciences. The book is most interesting and important for academics, students or anyone who want to rethink about the current nature of social sciences' learning. -- Xiaoyuan Shang, Professor of Social Policy, Beijing Normal University, China. This book persuasively explains why the social sciences should move beyond the narrow ideas of scientism, empiricism and professionalism towards a broader concept of learning and comprehensive thinking, and further conveys astoundingly deep knowledge about the commonalities and differences in the notion of learnedness and educational traditions of Western and Asian societies. -- Jin-Wook Shin, Professor of Sociology, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea.

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Kléber Ghimire is Professor at the International College of Arts, Yokohama City University, Japan. He was previously Professeur associé and Head of the department of social sciences at Université Stendhal, France. He has held teaching and research positions in Switzerland, Canada, Turkey and Japan. His recent books include Future Courses of Human Societies: Critical Reflections from the Natural and Social Sciences (Routledge) and Entre culture et réalité matérielle (Éditions du Panthéon).

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