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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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
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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.