Mikael Klintman is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Academic of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, UK. He studies obstacles to knowledge exchange across the human sciences in issues of environment and health. Klintman’s previous publications include Citizen-Consumers and Evolution (Palgrave, 2012).

• IntroductionPart I: Manifest and Latent Interests1. Dual systems in the human sciences2. The Apollonian dimension3. The Dionysian dimensionPart II: Universal and Culturally Specific Interests4. Glory, honour, or at least esteem5. The blank slate and its critics6. Understanding the prepared slatePart III: Interests, Continuity and Change7. Economics: Interests, continuity and change8. Social science: Interests, continuity & change9. Evolutionary theory: Interests, continuity and changeConclusionsReferences

Mikael Klintman is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Academic of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, UK. He studies obstacles to knowledge exchange across the human sciences in issues of environment and health. Klintman’s previous publications include Citizen-Consumers and Evolution (Palgrave, 2012).

• IntroductionPart I: Manifest and Latent Interests1. Dual systems in the human sciences2. The Apollonian dimension3. The Dionysian dimensionPart II: Universal and Culturally Specific Interests4. Glory, honour, or at least esteem5. The blank slate and its critics6. Understanding the prepared slatePart III: Interests, Continuity and Change7. Economics: Interests, continuity and change8. Social science: Interests, continuity & change9. Evolutionary theory: Interests, continuity and changeConclusionsReferences

Mikael Klintman is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Academic of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, UK. He studies obstacles to knowledge exchange across the human sciences in issues of environment and health. Klintman’s previous publications include Citizen-Consumers and Evolution (Palgrave, 2012).

• IntroductionPart I: Manifest and Latent Interests1. Dual systems in the human sciences2. The Apollonian dimension3. The Dionysian dimensionPart II: Universal and Culturally Specific Interests4. Glory, honour, or at least esteem5. The blank slate and its critics6. Understanding the prepared slatePart III: Interests, Continuity and Change7. Economics: Interests, continuity and change8. Social science: Interests, continuity & change9. Evolutionary theory: Interests, continuity and changeConclusionsReferences