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9780521882910

Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought

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    9780521882910

  • ISBN10:

    0521882915

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-12-17
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: an intellectual rebel with a cause
Civil Society, Coercion and Liberty
Ernest Gellner on liberty and modernity
Predation and production in European imperialism
Power, modernity and liberal democracy
Gellner versus Marxism: a major concern or a fleeting affair?
Ideology, Nationalism and Modernity
Nationalism: restructuring Gellner's theory
Between the book and the new sword: Gellner, violence and ideology
Ernest Gellner and the multicultural mess
Islam, Postmodernism and Gellner's Metaphysic
Islam, Modernity and Science
Truth, reason and the spectre of contingency
Gellner's metaphysic
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