The state of the nation

Cambridge University Press

1998

vii, 317 p.

Bibliogr.: p. 307–310

9780521633246

Contents: Thoughts about change : Ernest Gellner and the history of nationalism / Roman Szporluk. Ernest Gellner's diagnoses of nationalism : a critical overview, or, what is living and what is dead in Ernest Gellner's philosophy of nationalism? / Brendan O'Leary. Real and constructed : the nature of the nation / Miroslav Hroch. The curse of rurality : limits of modernisation theory / Tom Nairn. Nationalism and language : a post-Soviet perspective / David Laitin. Ernest Gellner's theory of nationalism : some definitional and methodological issues / Nicos Mouzelis. Nationalisms that bark and nationalisms that bite : Ernest Gellner and the substantiation of nations / Mark Beissinger. Nationalism and modernity / Charles Taylor. Modern multinational democracies : transcending a Gellnerian oxymoron / Alfred Stepan. Nationalism and civil society in central Europe : from Ruritania to the Carpathian Euroregion / Chris Hann. From here to modernity : Ernest Gellner on nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism / Dale F. Eickelmann. Myths and misconceptions in the study of nationalism / Rogers Brubaker

Nationalism is one of the major social and political issues of modern times. This volume brings together an exceptional set of scholars to assess every aspect of the most important and influential theory of nationalism, that of Ernest Gellner, explaining, criticising and developing Gellner's work.

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