The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-28
Total Pages: 762
ISBN-13: 900445747X
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Ernest Gellner
Author: John A. Hall
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2014-06-10
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 1844678458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErnest Gellner (1925–95) was a multilingual polymath and a public intellectual who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam. Having grown up in Paris, Prague, and England, he was also one of the last great Jewish thinkers from Central Europe to experience directly the impact of the Holocaust. His intellectual trajectory differed from that of similar thinkers, both in producing a highly integrated philosophy of modernity and in combining a respect for nationalism with an appreciation of the power of modern science. Gellner was a fierce opponent, in private as well as in public, of such contemporaries as Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor, Noam Chomsky and Edward Said. As this definitive biography shows, he was passionate in the defense of reason against every form of relativism—a battle that his intellectual inheritors continue to this day.
The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner
Author: John A. Hall
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 774
ISBN-13: 9789042001060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErnest Gellner and Modernity
Author: Michael Harry Lessnoff
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exposition of Gellner's thought, both in terms of the specific areas in which he worked and the underlying consistency of his theoretical principles. It provides a context within which to evaluate Gellner's contribution to social and political thought.
The State of the Nation
Author: John A. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-26
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521633666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exceptional set of scholars assess every aspect of the most influential theory of nationalism.
Spectacles and Predicaments
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521424349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays concerned with some key problems in the study of philosophy, politics and society.
Language and Solitude
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-10-28
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521639972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErnest Gellner's final book, first published in 1998, is a synoptic interpretation of the thought of Wittgenstein and Malinowski.
Words and Things
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780415345484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1959, this classic challenge to the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, remains the most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom in philosophy to this day.
Relativism and the Social Sciences
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-02-26
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521337984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders human diversity and change and rejects the usual solutions to problems of relativism. Presents a new mode of inquiry in its stead a mixture of philosophy, history, and anthropology that appears to be more meaningful.
Culture, Identity, and Politics
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-05-29
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780521336673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world through essays on such varied topics as the Ayatollah Khomeni, Czech dissidents, and Malinowski.
