Culture, Identity, and Politics

Essays exploring the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world.

Ernest Gellner (Author)

9780521336673, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 May 1987

200 pages
21.6 x 13.9 x 1.2 cm, 0.271 kg

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 emerging in the world and the kinds of moral and political legitimation it requires and permits. The essays are also linked by Ernest Gellner's distinctive, and highly arresting, intellectual temper and style. The volume will interest a wide range of readers in the social sciences and philosophy.

Preface
1. A blobologist in Vodkobuzia
2. Nationalism and the two forms of cohesion in complex societies
3. The roots of cohesion
4. Zeno of Cracow
5. From Königsberg to Manhattan
6. The social roots of egalitarianism
7. Recollection in anxiety: thought and change revisited
8. The captive Hamlet of Europe
9. Waiting for Imam
10. The rubber cage: disenchantment with disenchantment
11. Tractatus sociologico-philosophicus
Sources
Bibliography of Ernest Gellner
Index of names.

Subject Areas: Social & political philosophy [HPS]