Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521709415 ISBN 13: 9780521709415

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Ernest Gellner was a unique scholar whose work covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis, East European transformations and kinship structures. Despite this diversity, there is an exceptional degree of unity and coherence in Gellner's work with his distinctly modernist, rationalist and liberal world-view evident in everything he wrote. His central problematic remains constant: understanding how the modern world came into being and to what extent it is unique relative to all other social forms. Ten years after his death, this book brings together leading social theorists to evaluate the significance of Gellner's legacy and to re-examine his central concerns. It corrects many misunderstandings and critically engages with Gellner's legacy to provide a cutting edge contribution to understanding our contemporary post-9/11, global, late modern, social condition.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Siniša Malešević is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His recent publications include Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism (2006), The Sociology of Ethnicity (2004), Ideology, Legitimacy and the New State (2002) and Making Sense of Collectivities (co-edited with Mark Haugaard, 2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521709415
• ISBN 13: 9780521709415
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Maleŝević Siniŝa, Haugaard Mark