Ernest Gellner

Spectacles and Predicaments

Essays in Social Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays concerned with some key problems in the study of philosophy, politics and society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780521424349
• ISBN-10: 0521424348
• Artikelnr.: 26571622

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial preface I. C. Jarvie and J. Agassi
Part I. Understanding Humanity: 1. The absolute in braces
2. Ethnomethodology: the re-enchantment industry or the Californian way of subjectivity
3. A Wittgensteinian philosophy of (or against) the Social sciences
4. Period piece
5. Chomsky
6. Notes towards a theory of ideology
Part II. The Cognitive Predicament: 7. Options of belief
8. The pure enquirer
9. An ethic of cognition
10. Beyond truth and falsehood, or no method in my madness
11. The last pragmatist, or the behaviourist Platonist
12. Pragmatism and the important of being earnest
Part III. The Political Predicament: 13. Nationalism, or the new confessions of a justified Edinburgh sinner
14. A social contract in search of an idiom: the demise of the Danegeld state
15. The withering away of the dentistry state
16. From the Revolution to liberalisation
17. Plaidoyer pur une libéralisation manquée
18. Gone and gone forever
19. The Kathmandu option
Sources
Bibliography of Gellner, 1972-78
Indexes.