Ernest Gellner and contemporary social thought /

Ernest Gellner's scholarship covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis and East European kinship structures. Bringing together a group of social theorists, this book re-examines his central concerns in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Malešević, Siniša, Haugaard, Mark, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Gellner, Ernest.
Gellner, Ernest
Gellner, Ernest A. > Sozialwissenschaften > Philosophie > Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress > (2005 : > Galway)
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Social sciences > Philosophy
Politische Philosophie
Gellner
Social thought
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: an intellectual rebel with a cause / Mark Haugaard, Sinis̆a Males̆ević
  • Ernest Gellener on liberty and modernity / Alan Macfarlane
  • Predation and production in European imperialism / Michael Mann
  • Power, modernity and liberal democracy / Mark Haugaard
  • Gellner versus Marxism: a major concern or a fleeting affair? / Peter Skalník
  • Nationalism: restructuring Gellner's theory / Nicos Mooouzelis
  • Between the book and the new sword: Gellner, violence and ideology / Sinis̆a Males̆ević
  • Ernest Gellner and the multicultural mess / Thomas Hylland Erksen
  • Islam, modernity and science / Michael Lessnoff
  • Truth, reason and the spectre of contingency / Kevin Ryan
  • Gellner's metaphysic / John A. Hall.

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