Ernest Gellner's legacy and social theory today / Petr Skalnik, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Skalník, Peter, 1945- editor.

ProQuest ebook central

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gellner, Ernest.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 594 pages) : some illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Gellners Legacy Continues to Inspire

Chapter 2: Gellner and the Habsburg Window on Modernity

Chapter 3: Postcolonialism as a Possibility: A Dialogue That Never Happened

Chapter 4: The Persistence of the Individualism Debate Today

Chapter 5: Ernest Gellner and the Limits of Understanding

Chapter 6: The Ghost in the Machine: Gellner and Beyond with Data-Driven and Formalized Social Theory

Chapter 7: A Critique of Gellners Neo-Liberalism: Economy, Equality, Epistemology

Chapter 8: Gellner in the Anthropocene: Modernity, Nationalism and Climate Change

Chapter 9: Ernest Gellner and Populism

Chapter 10: Gellner and the Historians

Chapter 11: War and Group Solidarity: From Ibn Khaldun to Ernest Gellner and Beyond

Chapter 12: The Importance of Reading Ernest: Historical Methodologies as Hidden Resources for Anthropology

Chapter 13: Ernest Gellner and Debates about World History Periodization

Chapter 14: Islam, Plato, and Protestantism: Gellner and the Maghreb Society

Chapter 15: The Philosopher of Anthropology

Chapter 16: Ernest Gellner as Anthropologist

Chapter 17: Gellner: Right and Wrong

Chapter 18: Re-visiting Gellners Social Theory on Islam, Modernity, and the State: the Turkish Case

Chapter 19: After Ernest Gellner: Nationalism and Nation-States Today

Chapter 20: Nation Building in Aging Taiwan: A Gellnerian Perspective

Chapter 21: Gellner's Theory of Nationalism and the Study of Silesianess

Chapter 22: The Politics of Ethnification: The Political Subjectivity of Nation-States vis-a-vis the Polish Minority in Eastern Europe

Chapter 23: From Interdependence to Disjunction: Gellners Theory and the Development of the Interrelationship Between the Concepts of Nation and Nationalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Ernest Gellner's legacy and social theory today.

ISBN:

9783031068058

303106805X

Publisher Number:

99992432682

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.