Ernest Gellner

Author : John A. Hall
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844678458
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ernest Gellner written by John A. Hall and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226287025
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plough, Sword, and Book written by Ernest Gellner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.

Author : Michael Harry Lessnoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ernest Gellner and Modernity written by Michael Harry Lessnoff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134894996
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism, Reason and Religion written by Ernest Gellner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 calls enlightenment rationalism, upholds the idea that there is a unique truth, but denies that any society can ever possess it definitively. Learned and stimulating, Professor Gellner’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of postmodernism and the relations between Islam and the West. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the ideological condition of contemporary society.

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639972
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Solitude written by Ernest Gellner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Gellner's final book, first published in 1998, is a synoptic interpretation of the thought of Wittgenstein and Malinowski.

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415345484
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words and Things written by Ernest Gellner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John A. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521633666
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of the Nation written by John A. Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional set of scholars assess every aspect of the most influential theory of nationalism.

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521336673
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Identity, and Politics written by Ernest Gellner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-05-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world through essays on such varied topics as the Ayatollah Khomeni, Czech dissidents, and Malinowski.

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN 13 : 9780140236057
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conditions of Liberty written by Ernest Gellner and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished scholar's provocative analysis of the political forces transforming post-Communist Eastern Europe. What is filling the void left by the fall of Communism in the ex-Soviet Union and Eastern Europe? In this groundbreaking book, one of Europe's most distinguished social anthropologists addresses this question through an examination of the idea of the civil society, which is rooted in the Enlightenment's belief that society can be organized rationally.

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810113701
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychoanalytic Movement written by Ernest Gellner and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is the understanding of how psychoanalysis came to be so generally accepted by the public at large. The author, a sociologist, focuses on reconstructing the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of psychoanalysis rests.