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9780521882910 - ERNEST GELLNER AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THOUGHT - by Siniša Malešević and Mark Haugaard
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| Notes on contributors | page ix | |
| Acknowledgements | xiii | |
| Introduction: an intellectual rebel with a cause MARK HAUGAARD AND SINIšA MALEšEVIć |
1 | |
| Part I Civil society, coercion and liberty | 29 | |
| 1 | Ernest Gellner on liberty and modernity ALAN MACFARLANE |
31 |
| 2 | Predation and production in European imperialism MICHAEL MANN |
50 |
| 3 | Power, modernity and liberal democracy MARK HAUGAARD |
75 |
| 4 | Gellner versus Marxism: a major concern or a fleeting affair? PETER SKALNíK |
103 |
| Part II Ideology, nationalism and modernity | 123 | |
| 5 | Nationalism: restructuring Gellner’s theory NICOS MOUZELIS |
125 |
| 6 | Between the book and the new sword: Gellner, violence and ideology SINIšA MALEšEVIć |
140 |
| 7 | Ernest Gellner and the multicultural mess THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN |
168 |
| Part III Islam, postmodernism and Gellner’s metaphysic | 187 | |
| 8 | Islam, modernity and science MICHAEL LESSNOFF |
189 |
| 9 | Truth, reason and the spectre of contingency KEVIN RYAN |
227 |
| 10 | Gellner’s metaphysic JOHN A. HALL |
253 |
| Index | 271 | |
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