Ernest Gellner and Modernity

Ernest Gellner and Modernity
Author: Michael Harry Lessnoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

An exposition of Gellner's thought, both in terms of the specific areas in which he worked and the underlying consistency of his theoretical principles. It provides a context within which to evaluate Gellner's contribution to social and political thought.

Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner
Author: John A. Hall
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2014-06-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1844678458

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 producing a highly integrated philosophy of modernity and in combining a respect for nationalism with an appreciation of the power of modern science. Gellner was a fierce opponent, in private as well as in public, of such contemporaries as Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor, Noam Chomsky and Edward Said. As this definitive biography shows, he was passionate in the defense of reason against every form of relativism—a battle that his intellectual inheritors continue to this day.

The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner

The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner
Author: John A. Hall
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 776
Release: 1996
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789042000827

Contents: PART 1 INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND. Ji_i MUSIL: The Prague Roots of Ernest Gellner's Thinking. Chris HANN: Gellner on Malinowski: Words and Things in Central Europe. Tamara DRAGADZE: Ernest Gellner in the Soviet East. PART 2 NATIONS AND NATIONALISM.

The State of the Nation

The State of the Nation
Author: John A. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1998-11-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521633666

An exceptional set of scholars assess every aspect of the most influential theory of nationalism.

Transition to Modernity

Transition to Modernity
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 1992-01-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0521382025

World languages and human dispersals : a minimalist view / Colin Renfrew -- Nomads and oases in Central Asia / A.M. Khazanov -- Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies / E.A. Wrigley -- On a little known chapter of Mediterranean history / Karl R. Popper -- Ernest Gellner and the escape to modernity / Alan Macfarlane -- The emergence of modern European nationalism / Michael Mann -- Sovereign individuals / Ronald Dore -- Science, politics, enchantment / Perry Anderson -- Deconstructing post-modernism : Gellner and Crocodile Dundee / Joseph Agassi -- A methodology without presuppositions? / John Watkins -- Gellner's positivism / I.C. Jarvie -- Left versus Right in French political ideology / Louis Dumont -- Property, justice and common good after socialism / John Dunn -- Social contract, democracy and freedom / Gerard Radnitzky -- Thoughts on liberalisation / Jose Merquior -- Peace, peace at last? / John A. Hall.

Muslim Society

Muslim Society
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1983-03-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521274074

Why contemporary Islam is able to support austerely traditional and conservative regimes as well as revolutionary ones is the subject of this collection of essays. Professor Gellner's position is supported by a series of case studies and critical evaluations of rival interpretations.

Plough, Sword, and Book

Plough, Sword, and Book
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226287025

Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.

Nationalism

Nationalism
Author: Liah Greenfeld
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674603196

Nationalism is a movement and a state of mind that brings together national identity, consciousness, and collectivities. A five-country study that spans five hundred years, this historically oriented work in sociology bids well to replace all previous works on the subject.

Language and Solitude

Language and Solitude
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1998-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521639972

Ernest Gellner's final book, first published in 1998, is a synoptic interpretation of the thought of Wittgenstein and Malinowski.

Words and Things

Words and Things
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780415345484

First published in 1959, this classic challenge to the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, remains the most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom in philosophy to this day.