Libros de Ernest Gellner

Antropología Y Política . Revoluciones En El Bosque Sagrado

• 288 páginas
• En pocos años, Antropología y política se ha convertido en una obra capital más allá de la disciplina antropológica, al representar un análisis de las principales teorías que han marcado la evoluci&o...

Cultura, Identidad Y Política (ne) . El Nacionalismo Y Los Nuevos Cambios Sociales

• 204 páginas
• Las agitadas relaciones entre estado, sociedad civil e identidad cultural son los temas principales de esta exploración que en muchos aspectos sigue vigente en nuestros días. En vista de los horrores de los que hemos sido capaces los seres...

Spectacles And Predicaments

• 385 páginas
• 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 cogni...

Nations And Nationalism

• 152 páginas
• 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 interpretati...

Nations And Nationalism

• 192 páginas
• Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism (1983) provides one of the most powerful and original interpretations of modern nationalism. Drawing upon a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, politics and history, Gellner...

Language And Solitude

Words And Things

• 384 páginas
• 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 embark...

The Psychoanalytic Movement

• 252 páginas
• 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.

Anthropology And Politics

• Ernest Gellner explores here the links between anthropology and politics, and shows just how..

Transition To Modernity

• This set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. Concentration is

Culture, Identity, And Politics

• These essays explore the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world. They range..

Relativism And The Social Sciences

• This volume of essays deals with the problem of relativism, in particular cultural relativism. These essays reach towards a new style and mode of enquiry--a mixture of philosophy, history and anthropology--that promises to prove more revealing and fruitfu...

Muslim Society

• 267 páginas
• 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...