Overview
Explores the legacy of social theorist and philosopher Ernest Gellner
Brings Ernest Gellner's work into dialogue with today's pressing issues
Chapters are followed by a comment from a peer academic, creating a conversation within the book
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Perspectives
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Theoretical Issues
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Gellner on History
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Gellner and Anthropology
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Petr Skalník is Emeritus Extraordinary Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. Previously he taught at Comenius University, Leiden University, University of Cape Town, Charles University and the University of Pardubice. He has edited and co-edited over two dozen books over the course of his career, and is the 2006 recipient of the Chevalier dans l´Ordre des Palmes Académiques. From 1992 to 1997 he served as the Ambassador of Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic to Lebanon, and from 2003 to 2013 he was Vice-President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ernest Gellner’s Legacy and Social Theory Today
Editors: Petr Skalník
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06805-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06804-1Published: 29 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06807-2Published: 29 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06805-8Published: 28 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLII, 581
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Anthropology, Social Theory, Social Philosophy