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  • Ernest Gellner

    An Intellectual Biography

    de John A. Hall ...
    Ernest 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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

    de Ernest Gellner ...
    First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns itself to treating truth as relative to the society or culture in question. The third, which Gellner ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • The Devil in Modern Philosophy

    de Ernest Gellner ...
    The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America. ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences

    de Ernest Gellner ...
    This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time. ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Ernest Gellner’s Legacy and Social Theory Today

    Edición de Petr Skalník ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21st century through the prism of Ernest Gellner’s work. The contributors look critically at Gellner´s legacy, questioning whether he remains an inspiration for today’s social theorists. Chapters proactively probe Gellner’s thoughts on a variety of pressing topics—modernity, postcolonialsm, nationalism, and more—without losing sight of current ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Macat Analysis of Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism

    de Dale J. Stahl ...
    Narrado por John Chancer ...

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    1 horas 43 minutos

    Ernest Gellner — a Jew who escaped from Czechoslovakia in 1939 after Hitler invaded — knew first-hand the catastrophic effects of excessive nationalism, and he was determined to understand the phenomenon that had shaped so much of 20th century history. ¶Gellner argued that the concept of ‘nation’ is not an ancient notion but rather a modern idea born out of the seismic social and cultural shifts ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism

    de Dale Stahl ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    To the dismay of many commentators – who had hoped the world was evolving into a more tolerant and multicultural community of nations united under the umbrellas of supranational movements like the European Union – the nationalism that was such a potent force in the history of the 20th-century has made a comeback in recent years. Now, more than ever, it seems important to understand what it is, how ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • Ideology

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  • Nationalism

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  • Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber

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