Spectacles and Predicaments: Essays in Social Theory

by Ernest Gellner

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 implied about the nature of society in general. A second group examines the cognitive predicament, questions concerning the nature of the possibility of knowledge, as handled by a thinker such as Descartes, or the Pragmatist tradition. The third group handles the political predicament...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521424348
• ISBN13: 9780521424349
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"