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Ernest Gellner’s Legacy and Social Theory Today

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Explores the legacy of social theorist and philosopher Ernest Gellner

  • Brings Ernest Gellner's work into dialogue with today's pressing issues

  • Chapters are followed by a comment from a peer academic, creating a conversation within the book

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlii
  2. Historical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Gellner and the Habsburg Window on Modernity

      • Johann P. Arnason
      Pages 3-30
  3. Gellner and Anthropology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-337
    2. The Philosopher of Anthropology

      • John A. Hall
      Pages 339-352
    3. Ernest Gellner as Anthropologist

      • Adam Kuper
      Pages 353-363

About this book

This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21st century through the prism of Ernest Gellner’s work. The contributors look critically at Gellner´s legacy, questioning whether he remains an inspiration for today’s social theorists. Chapters proactively probe Gellner’s thoughts on a variety of pressing topics—modernity, postcolonialsm, nationalism, and more—without 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.

Keywords

  • Ernest Gellner
  • Social theory
  • Anthropological Theory
  • Populism
  • Nationalism
  • Critical Rationalism

Editors and Affiliations

  • Formerly University of Wroclaw, Pardubice, Czech Republic

    Petr Skalník

About the editor

Petr Skalník 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 l´Ordre des Palmes Académiques. 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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ernest Gellner’s Legacy and Social Theory Today

  • Editors: Petr Skalník

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06805-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06804-1Published: 29 October 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06807-2Published: 29 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06805-8Published: 28 October 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLII, 581

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Anthropology, Social Theory, Social Philosophy

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eBook USD 44.99
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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
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