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    Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences » Read Now

    by Ernest Gellner. 228 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and...
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    Contemporary Thought and Politics » Read Now

    by Ernest Gellner. 207 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Gellner's political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought. In these essays Gellner strives to understand the religions of nationalism, communism and democracy, returning...
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    The Devil in Modern Philosophy » Read Now

    by Ernest Gellner. 262 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and...
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    Words and Things » Read Now

    by Ernest Gellner. 274 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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    Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and the Habsburg Dilemma » Read Now

    by Ernest Gellner. 209 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) has been described as "one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals." In this, his last book, he throws new light on two key figures of the twentieth century: the philosopher Wittgenstein, and Malinowski, founder of modern British social anthropology...
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    The Sociology of Nationalism: Tomorrow's Ancestors (Chap. 4 "Devils at his Back: Nationalism and Ernest Gellner") » Read Now

    by David Mccrone. 208 pgs.

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    In recent years nationalism has emerged as one of the dominant issues of our time. In this lucid and balanced account, David McCrone lays out the key issues and debates around a subject which is too often obscured by polemic. Among topics covered are: * classical and contemporary theories of...
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    Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World: Walker Connor and the Study of Nationalism (Chap. 9 "Federations and the Management of Nations: Agreements and Arguments with Walker Connor and Ernest Gellner") » Read Now

    by Daniele Conversi. 302 pgs.

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    In Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World , world-renowned scholars employ various aspects of Connor's work to explicate the recent upsurge of nationalism on a global scale. In keeping with the growing awareness that the study of ethnonationalism requires an interdisciplinary approach, the...
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    Nation and Identity ("The Gellner Thesis: Nationalism and Industrialisation" begins on p. 18) » Read Now

    by Ross Poole. 210 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Nation and Identity provides a concise and comprehensive account of the place of national identity in modern life. Ross Poole argues that the nation became a fundamental organising principle of social, political and moral life during the period of early modernity and that is has provided the...

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