{"product_id":"language-and-solitude-wittgenstein-malinowski-and-the-habsburg-dilemma-paperback-9780521639972","title":"Language and Solitude; Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma (Paperback) 9780521639972","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLanguage and Solitude\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eErnest Gellner's final book, first published in 1998, is a synoptic interpretation of the thought of Wittgenstein and Malinowski.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eErnest Gellner (Author), David Gellner (Edited by), Steven Lukes (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521639972, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 28 October 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e230 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.33 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The theme of this book - the tension between philosophies of individualism and holism - is both timely and very important. No-one else I know could approach it with the depth and width of Ernest Gellner, taking on philosophy, anthropology and history with such confidence and ability. The book is full of his characteristic wit, insight, lucidity and clarity of vision … This is a provocative, deeply felt and important work [which] continues the tradition of his major onslaught on some of the closed systems of our century.' Alan MacFarlane\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eErnest Gellner (1925–95) has been described as 'one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals'. His last book, first published in 1998, throws 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 philosophical positions. Malinowski, the founder of modern British social anthropology, is usually credited with being the inventor of ethnographic fieldwork, a fundamental research method throughout the social sciences. In a highly original way, Gellner shows how the thought of both men grew from a common background of assumptions - widely shared in the Habsburg Empire of their youth - about human nature, society, and language. Tying together themes which preoccupied him throughout his working life, Gellner epitomizes his belief that philosophy - far from 'leaving everything as it is' - is about important historical, social and personal issues.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface David Gellner\u003cbr\u003e Foreword Steven Lukes\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Habsburg Predicament: 1. Swing alone or swing together\u003cbr\u003e 2. The rivals\u003cbr\u003e 3. Genesis of the individualist vision\u003cbr\u003e 4. The metaphysics of romanticism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Romanticism and the basis of nationalism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Individualism and holism in society\u003cbr\u003e 7. Crisis in Kakania\u003cbr\u003e 8. Pariah liberalism\u003cbr\u003e 9. Recapitulation\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Wittgenstein: 10. The loneliness of the long-distance empiricist\u003cbr\u003e 11. The poem to solitude, or: confessions of a rranscendental ego who is also a Viennese Jew\u003cbr\u003e 12. The ego and language\u003cbr\u003e 13. The world as solitary vice\u003cbr\u003e 14. The mystical\u003cbr\u003e 15. The central proposition of the Tractatus: world without culture\u003cbr\u003e 16. Wittgenstein mark 2\u003cbr\u003e 17. Tertium non datur\u003cbr\u003e 18. Joint escape\u003cbr\u003e 19. Janik and Toulmin: a critique\u003cbr\u003e 20. The case of the disappearing self\u003cbr\u003e 21. Pariah communalism\u003cbr\u003e 22. Iron cage Kafka style\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Malinowski: 23. The birth of modern social anthropology\u003cbr\u003e 24. The Malinowskian revolution\u003cbr\u003e 25. How did Malinowski get there?\u003cbr\u003e 26. Whither anthropology? or: wither Bronislaw Malinowski?\u003cbr\u003e 27. The difference between Krakow and Vienna\u003cbr\u003e 28. Malinowski's achievement and politics\u003cbr\u003e 29. Malinowski's theory of language\u003cbr\u003e 30. Malinowski's later mistake\u003cbr\u003e 31. The (un)originality of Malinowski and Wittgenstein\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Influences: 32. The impact and diffusion of Wittgenstein's ideas\u003cbr\u003e 33. The first wave of Wittgenstein's influence\u003cbr\u003e 34. A belated convergence of philosophy and anthropology\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Conclusions: 35. The truth of the matter\u003cbr\u003e 36. Our present condition\u003cbr\u003e General bibliography\u003cbr\u003e I. Jarvie, Bibliography of Ernest Gellner's writings on Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and nationalism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002382831896,"sku":"9780521639972","price":35.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521639972i_8e19e79c-e9dd-4bcb-aa64-a26958958fed.jpg?v=1691379413","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/language-and-solitude-wittgenstein-malinowski-and-the-habsburg-dilemma-paperback-9780521639972","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}