Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Ernest Gellner
yhteensä 31 hakutulosta
Soviet and Western Anthropology
Language and Solitude
Ernest Gellner (1925–1995) has been described as ‘one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals’. His last book throws new light on two leading thinkers of their …
The Psychoanalytic Movement
The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions. …
Anthropology and Politics
Ernest Gellner explores here the links between anthropology and politics, and shows just how central these are. The recent postmodernist turn in anthropology has been linked to the …
Liberalism in Modern Times
This fascinating study pays tribute to the life and work of the Brazilian essayist, thinker and diplomat Jose G. Merquior, who died prematurely in 1991. Part I concentrates on …
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 …
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 …
Spectacles and Predicaments
This collection of essays is concerned with philosophy, politics and society. The first group examines what philosophers such as Hegel, Wittgenstein and Chomsky have said or …
Encounters with Nationalism
The forecast demise of nationalism under the new moral orders of communism and internationalism has proved illusory. In the present century, to an extent greater perhaps than in …
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Psychoanalytic Movement
The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions. …