Culture, Identity, and Politics

by Ernest Gellner and George Albert Brown

These essays explore the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world. They range in space from Iran to Algeria, and the eastern marchlands of Europe to the Atlantic, and in time over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But they are all inspired by a cluster of linked preoccupations with the nature of the social order now emerging in the world and the kinds of moral and political legitimation it requires and permits. The essays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521336678
• ISBN13: 9780521336673
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"