Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner / / John A. Hall.

• Superior document: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Series ; v.48
• VerfasserIn: Hall, John A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (739 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The Life and Times of Ernest Gellner -- Part 1 Intellectual Background -- The Prague Roots of Ernest Gellner's Thinking -- Gellner on Malinowski: Words and Things in Central Europe -- Ernest Gellner in the Soviet East -- Part 2 Nations and Nationalism -- On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationalism -- Ernest Gellner and the Dangers of Theorising Nationalism -- History and Modernity: Reflection on the Theory of Nationalism -- The Emergence of Modern European Nationalism -- Gellner's Nationalism: The Spirit of Modernisation? -- Part 3 Patterns of Development -- Reflections on the History of Encyclopaedias -- Ernest Gellner and the Escape to Modernity -- Sovereign Individuals -- Japan: Non-Axial Modernity -- L'Indépendance Telescopée: De la Décolonisation a L'Impérialisme Multinational -- Part 4 Islam -- Segmentarity, Social Stratification, Political Power and Sainthood: Reflections on Gellner's Theses -- Rethinking Gellner's Segmentary Analysis of Morocco's Ait cAtta -- Sur le charisme -- Despotism and Democracy: State and Society in the Premodern Middle East -- Muslim and Jew in Morocco: Reflections on the Distinction between Belief and Behavior -- The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam -- Part 5 Science and Disenchantment -- Science, Politics, Enchantment -- From the Big Divide to the Rubber Cage: Gellner's Conception of Science and Technology -- Irrationality in Social Life -- Part 6 Relativism and Universals -- The Post-Modern Hume: Ernest Gellner's 'Enlightenment Fundamentalism' -- Ernest Gellner: A Wittgensteinian Rationalist -- Gellner's Positivism -- Relativising Relativism: When Sociology Refutes the Sociology of Science -- The Devil in Social Anthropology -- or, the Empiricist Exorcist.

or, the Case Against Cultural Relativism -- Part 7 Philosophy of History -- A Swan Song for British Liberalism? -- Gellner and the Long Trends of History -- Marx, Gellner, Power -- Coercion, Cognition and Production: Gellner's Challenge to Historical Materialism and Postmodernism -- Reply to Critics -- Complete Bibliography of Gellner's Work -- Name index -- Subject index -- POZNAŃ STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES.