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Psychoanalytic Movement
The Cunning of Unreason
Häftad, 1996
294 kr
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How did psychoanalysis become so accepted by the public? This provocative book reconstructs the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of psychoanalysis rests, describing a modern culture that has created a psychic or a spiritual void that psychoanalysis seems custom-made to fill. …
Muslim Society
Häftad, 1983
331 kr
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Of all the great world religions, Islam appears to have the most powerful political appeal in the twentieth century. It sustains some severely traditional and conservative regimes, but it is also capable of generating intense revolutionary ardour and of blending with extreme social radicalism. As …
Nations and Nationalism
Häftad, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
427 kr
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This updated edition of Ernest Gellner’s classic exploration of the roots of nationalism includes an extended introduction from John Breuilly, tracing the way the field has changed over the past two decades. As pertinent today as it was when it was first published in 1983. Argues that nationalism …
Psychoanalytic Movement
The Cunning of Unreason
Häftad, 2002
567 kr
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The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions. Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about …
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
Häftad, 1992
607 kr
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First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns …
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
Inbunden, 2003
4253 kr
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This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts …
Contemporary Thought and Politics
Inbunden, 2003
3082 kr
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Gellner's political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought. In these essays Gellner strives to understand the religions of nationalism, communism and democracy, …
Devil in Modern Philosophy
Inbunden, 2003
4253 kr
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The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and …
Words and Things
An Examination of, and an Attack on, Linguistic Philosophy, A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology
Häftad, 2005
300 kr
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When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy. Finding a powerful ally in Bertrand Russell, who provided the foreword for this book, Gellner embarked on the project that was to put him on the …
Devil in Modern Philosophy
Häftad, 2007
915 kr
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The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and …
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
Häftad, 2009
739 kr
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This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts …
Contemporary Thought and Politics
Häftad, 2009
754 kr
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Gellner's political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought. In these essays Gellner strives to understand the religions of nationalism, communism and democracy, …
Psychoanalytic Movement
The Cunning of Unreason
E-bok, 2008
649 kr
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The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions. Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about emotion. …
Culture, Identity, and Politics
Häftad, 1987
569 kr
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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 …
Relativism and the Social Sciences
Häftad, 1987
716 kr
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This volume of essays deals with the problem of relativism, in particular cultural relativism. If our society knows better than other societies, how do we know that it knows better? There is a profound irony in the fact that this self-doubt has become most acute in the one civilisation that has …
Spectacles and Predicaments
Essays in Social Theory
Häftad, 1991
667 kr
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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 …
Language and Solitude
Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma
Av Ernest Gellner, David Gellner
Häftad, 1998
699 kr
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Ernest Gellner (1925-95) has been described as 'one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals'. His last book, first published in 1998, throws light on two leading thinkers of their time. Wittgenstein, arguably the most influential and the most cited philosopher of the twentieth …
Encounters with Nationalism
Häftad, 1994
611 kr
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The forecast demise of nationalism under the new moral orders of communism and internationalism has proved illusory. In the present century, to an extent greater perhaps than in all others, nationalism has been the dominant force in the affairs of humankind. Why should this have been? Why is it …
Anthropology and Politics
Revolutions in the Sacred Grove
Häftad, 1995
583 kr
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Ernest Gellner explores here the links between anthropology and politics, and shows just how central these are. The recent postmodernist turn in anthropology has been linked to the expiation of colonial guilt. Traditional, functionalist anthropology is characteristically regarded as an accessory to …
Nations and Nationalism
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
587 kr
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Periodically, an important book emerges that makes us, through the uniqueness of its theory, perceive history as we have not seen it before. Ernest Gellner has written such a volume. Students of nationalism will have to come to grips with his interpretation of the causes for the emergence of …
Devil in Modern Philosophy
E-bok, 2004
1074 kr
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The essays in this volume gather together Gellner''s thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and …
Devil in Modern Philosophy
E-bok, 2004
1051 kr
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The essays in this volume gather together Gellner''s thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and …
Contemporary Thought and Politics
E-bok, 2004
864 kr
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Gellner''s political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought. In these essays Gellner strives to understand the religions of nationalism, communism and democracy, …
Contemporary Thought and Politics
E-bok, 2004
864 kr
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Gellner''s political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought. In these essays Gellner strives to understand the religions of nationalism, communism and democracy, …
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
E-bok, 2004
866 kr
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This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch''s idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts …
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
E-bok, 2004
866 kr
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This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch''s idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts …
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
E-bok, 2013
695 kr
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First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns …
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
E-bok, 2013
695 kr
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First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns …
Words and Things
An Examination of, and an Attack on, Linguistic Philosophy, A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology
Inbunden, 2016
1837 kr
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When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy. Finding a powerful ally in Bertrand Russell, who provided the foreword for this book, Gellner embarked on the project that was to put him on the …
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
Inbunden, 2020
3082 kr
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First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns …
