Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought

Klappentext A group of leading social theorists re-examine Ernest Gellner's central ideas in a contemporary context. Zusammenfassung Ernest Gellner was a unique scholar whose work covered a diverse range of topics. A group of leading social theorists deepen our understanding of key social forces in the contemporary world by re-examining some of Gellner's central ideas in the post-9/11! global and late modern context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: an intellectual rebel with a cause Mark Haugaard and Siniša Maleševi¿; Part I. Civil Society, Coercion and Liberty: 1. Ernest Gellner on liberty and modernity Alan Macfarlane; 2. Predation and production in European imperialism Michael Mann; 3. Power, modernity and liberal democracy Mark Haugaard; 4. Gellner versus Marxism: a major concern or a fleeting affair? Peter Skalnik; Part II. Ideology, Nationalism and Modernity: 5. Nationalism: restructuring Gellner's theory Nicos Mouzelis; 6. Between the book and the new sword: Gellner, violence and ideology Siniša Maleševi¿; 7. Ernest Gellner and the multicultural mess Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Part III. Islam, Postmodernism and Gellner's Metaphysic: 8. Islam, Modernity and Science Michael Lessnoff; 9. Truth, reason and the spectre of contingency Kevin Ryan; 10. Gellner's metaphysic John A. Hall.

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• Authors: Sinisa Malesevic, Sinisa (Dr Malesevic, Sinisa Haugaard Malesevic
• Assisted by: Mark Haugaard (Editor), Mark (Dr Haugaard (Editor), Sini a. Male Evi (Editor), Male& (Editor), Sini&a Male&349;evic (Editor), Sini¿a Male¿evi¿ (Editor), Sinisa Malesevic (Editor), Sinisa (Dr Malesevic (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2007
• EAN: 9780521709415
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70941-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories