Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner /

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

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Superior document:Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Series ; v.48
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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)
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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.

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