Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought

by Mark Haugaard and Siniša Malešević

Book Overview

Ernest Gellner was a unique scholar whose work covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis, East European transformations and kinship structures. Despite this diversity, there is an exceptional degree of unity and coherence in Gellner's work with his distinctly modernist, rationalist and liberal world-view evident in everything he wrote. His central problematic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521709415
• ISBN13: 9780521709415
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"