{"product_id":"ernest-gellner-s-legacy-and-social-theory-today-9783031068041","title":"Ernest Gellner’s Legacy and Social Theory Today","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century through the prism of Ernest Gellner’s work. The contributors look critically at Gellner´s legacy, questioning whether he remains an inspiration for today’s social theorists. Chapters proactively probe Gellner’s thoughts on a variety of pressing topics—modernity, postcolonialsm, nationalism, and more—without losing sight of current debates on these issues. This volume further brings these debates to life by having each chapter followed by a comment by an academic peer of the chapter author, thus transforming the text into a lively and dynamic conversation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes on contributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e0.      Petr Skalník \/ Introduction: Gellner’s Legacy Continues to Inspire \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistorical  Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.      Johann P. Arnason \/ Gellner and the Habsburg Window on Modernity (Comment by Chris Hann)\u003c\/p\u003e  2.      Thomas Hylland Eriksen \/ Postcolonialism as a Possibility: A Dialogue That Never Happened (Comment by Grażyna Kubica)\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.      Ian Jarvie \/ The Persistence of the Individualism Debate Today (Comment by David Gellner)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheoretical Issues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  4.      Alan Macfarlane \/ Ernest Gellner and the Limits of Understanding (Comment by Adam Horálek)\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5.      Ralph Schroeder \/ The Ghost in the Machine: Gellner and Beyond with Data-Driven and Formalized Social Theory (Comment by Siniša Malešević)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.      Chris Hann \/ A Critique of Gellner’s Neo-Liberalism: Economy, Equality, Epistemology (Comments by Johann Arnason and Anatoly Khazanov)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.      Daniele Conversi \/ Gellner in the Anthropocene: Modernity, Nationalism and Climate Change (Comment by Thomas Hylland Eriksen) \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.      David Gellner \/ Ernest Gellner and Populism (Comment by Mihály Sárkány)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGellner on History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9.      Guido Franzinetti \/ Gellner and the Historians (Comment by David Shankland)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10.  Siniša Malešević \/ War and Group Solidarity: From Ibn Khaldun to Ernest Gellner and Beyond (Comment by Guido Franzinetti)\u003c\/p\u003e  11.  Andre Gingrich \/ The Importance of Reading Ernest: Historical Methodologies as Hidden  Resources for Anthropology (Comment by Daniele Conversi)\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12.  Nikolay Kradin \/ Ernest Gellner and Debates about World History Periodization (Comment by Anatoly Khazanov) \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13.  Lahouari Addi \/ Islam, Plato, and Protestantism: Gellner and the Maghreb Society (Comment by Andre Gingrich)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGellner and Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e14.  John Hall \/ The Philosopher of Anthropology (Comment by Ian Jarvie)\u003c\/p\u003e  15.  Adam Kuper \/ Ernest Gellner as Anthropologist (Comment by Petr Skalník)\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e16.  David Shankland \/ Gellner: Right and Wrong (Comment by Lale Yalçın-Heckmann)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e17.  Lale Yalçın-Heckmann \/ Re-visiting Gellner’s Social Theory on Islam, Modernity, and the State: the Turkish Case (Comment by David Shankland)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGellner and Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  18.  Anatoly Khazanov \/ After Ernest Gellner: Nationalism and Nation-States Today (Comment by John Hall)\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19.  Adam Horálek \/ Nation Building in Aging Taiwan: A Gellnerian Perspective (Comment by Alan Macfarlane)\u003c\/p\u003e  20.  Grażyna Kubica \/ Gellner's Theory of Nationalism and the Study of Silesianess (Comment by Marcin Brocki)\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e21.  Vytis Čiubrinskas \/ The Politics of Ethnification: The Political Subjectivity of Nation-States vis-à-vis the Polish Minority in Eastern Europe (Comment by Zdeněk Uherek) \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e22.  Zdeněk Uherek \/ From Interdependence to Disjunction: Gellner´s Theory and the \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDevelopment of the Interrelationship Between the Concepts of Nation and \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNationalism  (Comment by Vytis Čiubrinskas)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGeneral comments: Aleksandar Bošković, Nikola Balaš, Petr Skalník \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516332368215,"sku":"9783031068041","price":42.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ernest-gellner-s-legacy-and-social-theory-today-9783031068041","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}