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Mapping the Nation
In nearly two decades since Samuel P. Huntington proposed his influential and troubling 'clash of civilizations' thesis, nationalism has only continued to puzzle and frustrate …
Culture, Identity, and Politics
Essays exploring the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world.
The Devil in Modern Philosophy
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 …
Saints of the Atlas
Words and Things
When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy. Finding a powerful ally …
Liberalism in Modern Times
Essays that directly or indirectly pay tribute to the life and work of the late Brazilian essayist, thinker and diplomat, Jose G.Merquior.
Soviet and Western Anthropology
The Psychoanalytic Movement
How did psychoanalysis become so accepted by the public? This provocative book reconstructs the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of psychoanalysis rests, …
Islamic Dilemmas: Reformers, Nationalists and Industrialization
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions …
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of …
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
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 …
Spectacles and Predicaments
A collection of essays concerned with some key problems in the study of philosophy, politics and society.