Ernest Gellner's legacy and social theory today / Petr Skalnik, editor.
Skalník, Peter, 1945- editor.
2022
H61
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Title Ernest Gellner's legacy and social theory today / Petr Skalnik, editor.
ISBN 9783031068058 (electronic bk.)
303106805X (electronic bk.)
9783031068041
3031068041
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06805-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (iv, 594 pages) : some illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-06805-8 doi
Call Number H61
Dewey Decimal Classification 301.01
Summary This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21st century through the prism of Ernest Gellners work. The contributors look critically at Gellners legacy, questioning whether he remains an inspiration for todays social theorists. Chapters proactively probe Gellners thoughts on a variety of pressing topicsmodernity, postcolonialsm, nationalism, and morewithout losing sight of current debates on these issues. This volume further brings these debates to life by having each chapter followed by a comment by an academic peer of the chapter author, thus transforming the text into a lively and dynamic conversation. Petr Skalnik is Emeritus Extraordinary Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. Previously he taught at Comenius University, Leiden University, University of Cape Town, Charles University and the University of Pardubice. He has edited and co-edited over two dozen books over the course of his career, and is the 2006 recipient of the Chevalier dans lOrdre des Palmes Academiques. From 1992 to 1997 he served as the Ambassador of Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic to Lebanon, and from 2003 to 2013 he was Vice-President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
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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.

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