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1	Nations and Nationalism more books like this by Ernest Gellner $4.20 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, yet it is surprisingly little studied and only imperfectly understood, either by its adherents or its opponents. Its irruption into the modern world is often explained as a resurgence of primitive, atavistic instincts, or as a delusion fostered by a few theoreticians, politicians ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.35! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals more books like this by Ernest Gellner $12.45 (new hardcover, see detail) add to wishlist Western democracies are "open societies" in which neither the state nor religion try to achieve a monopoly of power or the exclusive claim on people's hearts. In between the state and the family are countless other institutions, from trade unions to stamp collecting clubs, from student organizations to churches and protest movements. This is the ... see all copies from $4.23! new only from $12.45! \| first editions
3	Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History more books like this by Ernest Gellner $8.80 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The author argues against the idea that history is bunk and suggests that today is only possible because of the changes that took place yesterday. His philosophy of history is supported by examples drawn from a wide variety of disciplines. From the author of the Psychoanalytic Movement. see all copies from $4.95! new only from $23.49! \| first editions
4	Conditions of Liberty: 2civil Society and Its Rivals more books like this by Ernest Gellner $59.94 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Western democracies are "open societies" in which neither the state nor religion try to achieve a monopoly of power or the exclusive claim on people's hearts. In between the state and the family are countless other institutions from Trade Unions to stamp collecting clubs, from student organisations to churches and protest movements. This is the ... see all copies from $7.79! new only from $79.99!
5	Words and Things: An Examination Of, and an Attack On, Linguistic Philosophy more books like this by Ernest Gellner $9.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 embarked on the project that was to put him on the intellectual map. "Words and Things" was the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.84! \| SVS
6	Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma more books like this by Ernest Gellner, David N Gellner (Preface by), Steven Lukes (Introduction by) $13.97 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) has been described as 'one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals'. His last book throws new light on two leading thinkers of their time. Wittgenstein, arguably the most influential and the most cited philosopher of the twentieth century, is famous for having propounded two radically different ... see all copies from $13.96! new only from $24.00! \| first editions
7	Encounters with Nationalism more books like this by Ernest Gellner $7.95 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The forecast demise of nationalism under the new moral orders of communism and internationalism has proved illusory. In the present century, to an extent greater perhaps than in all others, nationalism has been the dominant force in the affairs of humankind. Why should this have been? Why is it that a national identity should continue to be the ... see all copies from $3.64! new only from $25.18! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Relativism and the Social Sciences more books like this by Ernest Gellner $12.12 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This volume of essays deals with the problem of relativism, in particular cultural relativism. If our society knows better than other societies, how do we know that it knows better? There is a profound irony in the fact that this self-doubt has become most acute in the one civilisation that has persuaded the rest of the world to emulate it. The ... see all copies from $12.12! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
9	Postmodernism, Reason and Religion more books like this by Ernest Gellner $27.54 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is a return to the genuine and firm faith of religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether, and resigns itself to treating truth as relative to the society or culture in question. ... see all copies from $7.49! new only from $31.34! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Saints of the Atlas more books like this by Ernest Gellner $36.00 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist see all copies from $28.34! new only from $36.00! \| SVS
11 view cover	Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove more books like this by Ernest Gellner $17.42 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Ernest Gellner explores here the links between anthropology and politics, and shows just how central these are. The recent postmodernist turn in anthropology has been linked to the expiation of colonial guilt. Traditional, functionalist anthropology is characteristically regarded as an accessory to the crime, and anyone critical of the ... see all copies from $17.41! new only from $36.00! \| SVS
12 view cover	Culture, Identity, and Politics more books like this by Ernest Gellner (Preface by) $19.48 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $19.48! new only from $35.22! \| SVS
13	Words and things. more books like this by Ernest Gellner $7.65 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $5.79! first editions
14	Spectacles and Predicaments: Essays in Social Theory more books like this by Ernest Gellner $24.75 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist A collection of essays concerned with some key problems in the study of philosophy, politics and society. see all copies from $23.05! new only from $39.54! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Nationalism more books like this by Ernest Gellner $7.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In this provocative essay, finished just before the author's death, Gellner explores the subject with which he was most associated throughout his life: that of nationalism. He demonstrates how the histories of nationalism and industrialization are crucially linked and, drawing together the history of philosophy, economics and political thought, he ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $27.60! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Legitimation of Belief more books like this by Ernest Gellner $28.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $10.01! first editions
17	Malinowski Between Two Worlds: The Polish Roots of an Anthropological Tradition more books like this by Roy F Ellen (Editor), Ernest Gellner (Editor), Grazyna Kubica (Editor) $90.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist For many years Malinowski has been widely regarded as making a distinctively British contribution to social anthropology--a contribution that fundamentally transformed the subject. However, little attention has been paid to his Polish background. The essays in this collection redress the balance by demonstrating the relevance of Malinowski's ... see all copies from $57.53! first editions
18	Soviet and Western anthropology more books like this by Ernest Gellner (Photographer) $99.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $47.78! first editions
19 view cover	Muslim Society more books like this by Ernest Gellner add to wishlist 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 blending with extreme social radicalism. As an agent of political mobilisation, it seems to be ... see all copies from $57.78!
20 view cover	The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason more books like this by Ernest Gellner $4.45 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist How did the language of psychoanalysis become the dominant idiom in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions? Ernest Gellner offers a forceful and complex answer to this intriguing question in The Psychoanalytic Movement. This landmark study argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of ... see all copies from $4.44! new only from $19.89! \| first editions \| SVS
21	The psychoanalytic movement : or the coming of unreason more books like this by Ernest Gellner $9.95 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $3.99! new only from $41.58!
22 view cover	Reason and Culture: The Historic Role of Rationality and Rationalism more books like this by Ernest Gellner $79.50 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Since the 17th century, Western society has had a turbulent relationship with Reason. Descartes set out to reorganize all his opinions in the light of Reason, allowing, as Pascal bitterly reproached him, nothing else. In the course of the centuries which followed, the relationship with Reason became the object of a vigorous, often passionate ... see all copies from $18.95!
23	Spectacles and Predicaments more books like this by Ernest Gellner, I C Jarvie (Preface by), J Agassi (Preface by) $37.58 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist In this volume the author develops a political and social philosophy which answers some of the theoretical and practical "predicaments" of the world in which we live. Gellner criticizes the current philosophical views and suggests his own alternatives, which he then applies to current concerns. see all copies from $37.58! new only from $37.58!
24 view cover	Liberalism in Modern Times: Essays in Honour of Jose G. Merquior more books like this by Ernest Gellner (Editor), Cesar Cansino (Editor), E Geliner $18.86 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Paying tribute to the Brazilian essayist, thinker and diplomat Jose Merquior, this collection of papers explores some of his favourite themes: liberalism as it relates to social cohesion; political stability; morality; republicanism and democracy; and the scepticism underlying postmodern thought. see all copies from $18.55!
25 view cover	Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in 19th Century Morocco more books like this by Mohammed Ennaji, Seth Graebner (Translator), Ernest Gellner (Preface by) $35.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Uses a unique wealth of hitherto unstudied sources to paint a practical, compelling picture of the experiences of slaves in nineteenth-century Morocco. see all copies from $35.00! new only from $136.12! \| first editions

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