Introduction: an intellectual rebel with a cause / Mark Haugaard, Sinis̆a Males̆ević -- Ernest Gellener on liberty and modernity / Alan Macfarlane -- Predation and production in European imperialism / Michael Mann -- Power, modernity and liberal democracy / Mark Haugaard -- Gellner versus Marxism: a major concern or a fleeting affair? / Peter Skalník -- Nationalism: restructuring Gellner's theory / Nicos Mooouzelis -- Between the book and the new sword: Gellner, violence and ideology / Sinis̆a Males̆ević -- Ernest Gellner and the multicultural mess / Thomas Hylland Erksen -- Islam, modernity and science / Michael Lessnoff -- Truth, reason and the spectre of contingency / Kevin Ryan -- Gellner's metaphysic / John A. Hall.
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Ernest Gellner's scholarship covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis and East European kinship structures. Bringing together a group of social theorists, this book re-examines his central concerns in the light of the modern world.
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Ernest Gellner and contemporary social thought.
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Ernest Gellner & contemporary social thought
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Gellner, Ernest A.-- Sozialwissenschaften-- Philosophie