ISBN:
9780511488795
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
300.92
Keywords:
Gellner, Ernest
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Gellner, Ernest
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Philosophie
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Sozialwissenschaften
;
Social sciences / Philosophy
;
Politische Philosophie
;
Konferenzschrift 2005
;
Konferenzschrift 2005
;
Gellner, Ernest 1925-1995
;
Politische Philosophie
Abstract:
Ernest Gellner was a unique scholar whose work covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis, East European transformations and kinship structures. Despite this diversity, there is an exceptional degree of unity and coherence in Gellner's work with his distinctly modernist, rationalist and liberal world-view evident in everything he wrote. His central problematic remains constant: understanding how the modern world came into being and to what extent it is unique relative to all other social forms. Ten years after his death, this book brings together leading social theorists to evaluate the significance of Gellner's legacy and to re-examine his central concerns. It corrects many misunderstandings and critically engages with Gellner's legacy to provide a cutting edge contribution to understanding our contemporary post-9/11, global, late modern, social condition
Description / Table of Contents:
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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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511488795
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488795
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