Poznan Studies vol. 48 -- Table of Contents
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This message contains the Table of Contents of the Volume 48 of the Poznan
Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities bookseries:
THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OF ERNEST GELLNER
Edited by John A. Hall and Ian Jarvie
Amsterdam Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1996
The abstracts of the papers and the editor's introduction can be found at:
http://www.utpb.edu/scimath/paprzyck/ps/ps.htm. The site also contains
information on all other volumes of the series.
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THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OF ERNEST GELLNER
Edited by John A. Hall and Ian Jarvie
TABLE OF CONTENTS
John A. Hall and Ian Jarvie
Preface
John A. Hall and Ian Jarvie
The Life and Times of Ernest Gellner
PART 1: INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND
Jiri Musil
The Prague Roots of Ernest Gellner's Thinking
Chris Hann
Gellner on Malinowski: Words and Things in Central Europe.
Tamara Dragadze
Ernest Gellner in the Soviet East.
PART 2: NATIONS AND NATIONALISM
Brendan O'Leary
On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's
Writings on Nationalism.
Kenneth Minogue
Ernest Gellner and the Dangers of Theorising Nationalism
Anthony D. Smith
History and Modernity: Reflection on the Theory of Nationalism
Michael Mann
The Emergence of Modern European Nationalism
Nick Stargardt
Gellner's Nationalism: The Spirit of Modernisation?
PART 3: PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT
Peter Burke
Reflections on the History of Encyclopaedias
Alan Macfarlane
Ernest Gellner and the Escape to Modernity
Ronald Dore
Sovereign Individuals
Shmuel Eisenstadt
Japan: Non Axial Modernity
Marc Ferro
L'Independance Telescopee: De la Decolonisation a
L'Imperialisme Multinational
PART 4: ISLAM
Abdellah Hammoudi
Segmentarity, Social Stratification, Political Power and
Sainthood: Reflections on Gellner's Theses
Henry Munson, Jr.
Rethinking Gellner's Segmentary Analysis of Morocco's Ait cAtta
Jean Baechler
Sur le charisme
Charles Lindholm
Despotism and Democracy: State and Society in the PreModern
Middle East
Henry Munson, Jr.
Muslim and Jew in Morocco: Reflections on the Distinction
Between Belief and Behavior
Talal Asad
The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam
PART 5: SCIENCE AND DISENCHANTMENT
Perry Anderson
Science, Politics, Enchantment
Ralph Schroeder
From the Big Divide to the Rubber Cage: Gellner's Conception of
Science and Technology
John Davis
Irrationality in Social Life
PART 6: RELATIVISM AND UNIVERSALS
John Skorupski
The Post-Modern Hume: Ernest Gellner's `Enlightenment
Fundamentalism'
John Wettersten
Ernest Gellner: A Wittgensteinian Rationalist
Ian Jarvie
Gellner's Positivism
Raymond Boudon
Relativising Relativism: When Sociology Refutes the Sociology
of Science
Rod Aya
The Devil in Social Anthropology; or, the Empiricist Exorcist;
or, the Case Against Cultural Relativism
PART 7: PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
William McNeill
A Swan Song for British Liberalism?
Andrus Park
Gellner and the Long Trends of History
Eero Loone
Marx, Gellner, Power
Rosaire Langlois
Coercion, Cognition and Production: Gellner's Challenge to
Historical Materialism and Post-Modernism
Ernest Gellner
Reply to Critics
Ian Jarvie
Complete Bibliography of Gellner's Work