Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004457478
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9789042000827
Series Statement:
Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 48
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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John A. HALL and Ian JARVIE: Preface -- John A. HALL and Ian JARVIE: The Life and Times of Ernest Gellner -- PART 1 INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND -- Ji_i MUSIL: The Prague Roots of Ernest Gellner's Thinking -- Chris HANN: Gellner on Malinowski: Words and Things in Central Europe -- Tamara DRAGADZE: Ernest Gellner in the Soviet East -- PART 2 NATIONS AND NATIONALISM -- Brendan O'LEARY: On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationalism -- Kenneth MINOGUE: Ernest Gellner and the Dangers of Theorising Nationalism -- Anthony D -- SMITH: History and Modernity: Reflection on the Theory of Nationalism -- Michael MANN: The Emergence of Modern European Nationalism -- Nicholas STARGARDT: Gellner's Nationalism: The Spirit of Modernisation? PART 3 PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT -- Peter BURKE: Reflections on the History of Encyclopaedias -- Alan MACFARLANE: Ernest Gellner and the Escape to Modernity -- Ronald DORE: Sovereign Individuals -- Shmuel EISENSTADT: Japan: Non-Axial Modernity -- Marc FERRO: l'Indépendance Telescopée: De la Décolonisation a l'Impérialisme Multinational -- PART 4 ISLAM -- Abdellah HAMMOUDI: Segmentarity, Social Stratification, Political Power and Sainthood: Reflections on Gellner's Theses -- Henry MUNSON, Jr.: Rethinking Gellner's Segmentary Analysis of Morocco's Ait cAtta -- Jean BAECHLER: Sur le charisme -- Charles LINDHOLM: Despotism and Democracy: State and Society in the Premodern Middle East -- Henry MUNSON, Jr.: Muslim and Jew in Morocco: Reflections on the Distinction between Belief and Behavior -- Talal ASAD: The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam -- PART 5 SCIENCE AND DISENCHANTMENT -- Perry ANDERSON: Science, Politics, Enchantment -- Ralph SCHROEDER: From the Big Divide to the Rubber Cage: Gellner's Conception of Science and Technology -- John DAVIS: Irrationality in Social Life -- PART 6 RELATIVISM AND UNIVERSALS -- John SKORUPSKI: The Post-Modern Hume: Ernest Gellner's 'Enlightenment Fundamentalism' -- John WETTERSTEN: Ernest Gellner: A Wittgensteinian Rationalist -- Ian JARVIE: Gellner's Positivism -- Raymond BOUDON: Relativising Relativism: When Sociology Refutes the Sociology of Science -- Rod AYA: The Devil in Social Anthropology; or, the Empiricist Exorcist; or, the Case Against Cultural Relativism -- PART 7 PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY -- William MCNEILL: A Swan Song for British Liberalism? Andrus PARK: Gellner and the Long Trends of History -- Eero LOONE: Marx, Gellner, Power -- Rosaire LANGLOIS: Coercion, Cognition and Production: Gellner's Challenge to Historical Materialism and Postmodernism -- Ernest GELLNER: Reply to Critics -- Ian JARVIE: Complete Bibliography of Gellner's Work -- Name index -- Subject index.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner Leiden : BRILL, 1996 ISBN 9789042000827
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004457478
