| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gellner, Ernest.
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Gellner, Ernest. |
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Kongress Galway 2005. |
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy. |
| Indexed Term |
Gellner |
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Social thought |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Malešević, Siniša.
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Haugaard, Mark, 1961-
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| Cover Title |
Ernest Gellner & contemporary social thought |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ernest Gellner and contemporary social thought. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521882910 (DLC) 2008271009 (OCoLC)166626229 |
| ISBN |
9780511371387 (electronic book) |
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0511371381 (electronic book) |
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9780511488795 (electronic book) |
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0511488793 (electronic book) |
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9780511370403 |
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0511370407 |
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1281156027 |
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9781281156020 |
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9780521882910 (hardback) |
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9780511369902 |
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9780521709415 (paperback) |
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0521882915 |
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0521709415 |
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