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 are also linked by Ernest Gellner's distinctive, and highly arresting, intellectual temper and style. The volume will interest a wide range of readers in the social sciences and philosophy.
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An exploration of the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world through essays on such varied topics as the Ayatollah Khomeni, Czech dissidents, and Malinowski.
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FYI-- entirely authored by Gellner,
By Jacob T. Levy (Montreal, QC, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Culture, Identity, and Politics (Paperback)
Contrary to how things appear in the Amazon listing, Gellner wrote all of this book, not merely the introduction. The book mostly consists of essays published 1979-1985. Incisive and delightful to read as always, Gellner here discusses Durkheim, Malinowski, Arendt, and Wittgenstein, nationalism, totalitarianism, industrialization, and egalitarianism.
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- Islam & Revolution by Khomeini on 4 pages
- Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini (1941-1980) by Imam Khomeini on 4 pages
- A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays by Bronislaw Malinowski on page 52, and page 74
- Objectivity and Cultural Divergence (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements) by Stuart C. Brown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Emile Durkheim: A Historical and Critical Study (Peregrine Books) by Stephen Lukes on page 32
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- Citizenship and the Nation-State in Greece and Turkey (Social and Historical Studies on Greece and Turkey) by Thalia Dragonas on page 60, page 62, and page 64
- The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France by Frederic Cople Jaher in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Arab Nationalism: Between Islam and the Nation-State by Bassam Tibi in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- International Migration And Global Justice (Law and Migration) (Law and Migration) by Satvinder S. Juss on page 59, and Back Matter
- Arab Nationalism: Between Islam and the Nation-State by Bassam Tibi in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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