Ernest Gellner and contemporary social thought

Cambridge University Press

2007

xiii, 274 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

9780521882910

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

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 the light of the modern world.

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