Culture, Identity, and Politics

✍ Scribed by Ernest Gellner

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
1 A blobologist in Vodkobuzia......Page 8
2 Nationalism and the two forms of cohesion in complex societies......Page 13
3 The roots of cohesion......Page 36
4 Zeno of Cracow......Page 54
5 From Königsberg to Manhattan......Page 82
6 The social roots of egalitarianism......Page 98
7 Recollection in anxiety: Thought and Change revisited......Page 118
8 The captive Hamlet of Europe......Page 130
9 Waiting for Imam......Page 141
10 The Rubber Cage: Disenchantment with Disenchantment......Page 159
11 Tractatus Sociologico-Philosophicus......Page 173
Sources......Page 192
Bibliography of Emest Gellner (IV):1983-5......Page 193
Index of names......Page 195