Ernest Gellner's Legacy and Social Theory Today

ISBN-13: 9783031068041 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 594 str.

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

 

0.      Petr Skalník / Introduction: Gellner’s Legacy Continues to Inspire

 

Historical  Perspectives

1.      Johann P. Arnason / Gellner and the Habsburg Window on Modernity (Comment by Chris Hann)

2.      Thomas Hylland Eriksen / Postcolonialism as a Possibility: A Dialogue That Never Happened (Comment by Grażyna Kubica)

3.      Ian Jarvie / The Persistence of the Individualism Debate Today (Comment by David Gellner)

 

Theoretical Issues

4.      Alan Macfarlane / Ernest Gellner and the Limits of Understanding (Comment by Adam Horálek)

5.      Ralph Schroeder / The Ghost in the Machine: Gellner and Beyond with Data-Driven and Formalized Social Theory (Comment by Siniša Malešević)

6.      Chris Hann / A Critique of Gellner’s Neo-Liberalism: Economy, Equality, Epistemology (Comments by Johann Arnason and Anatoly Khazanov)

7.      Daniele Conversi / Gellner in the Anthropocene: Modernity, Nationalism and Climate Change (Comment by Thomas Hylland Eriksen)

8.      David Gellner / Ernest Gellner and Populism (Comment by Mihály Sárkány)

 

Gellner on History

9.      Guido Franzinetti / Gellner and the Historians (Comment by David Shankland)

10.  Siniša Malešević / War and Group Solidarity: From Ibn Khaldun to Ernest Gellner and Beyond (Comment by Guido Franzinetti)

11.  Andre Gingrich / The Importance of Reading Ernest: Historical Methodologies as Hidden  Resources for Anthropology (Comment by Daniele Conversi)

12.  Nikolay Kradin / Ernest Gellner and Debates about World History Periodization (Comment by Anatoly Khazanov)

13.  Lahouari Addi / Islam, Plato, and Protestantism: Gellner and the Maghreb Society (Comment by Andre Gingrich)

 

Gellner and Anthropology

14.  John Hall / The Philosopher of Anthropology (Comment by Ian Jarvie)

15.  Adam Kuper / Ernest Gellner as Anthropologist (Comment by Petr Skalník)

16.  David Shankland / Gellner: Right and Wrong (Comment by Lale Yalçın-Heckmann)

17.  Lale Yalçın-Heckmann / Re-visiting Gellner’s Social Theory on Islam, Modernity, and the State: the Turkish Case (Comment by David Shankland)

 

Gellner and Nationalism

18.  Anatoly Khazanov / After Ernest Gellner: Nationalism and Nation-States Today (Comment by John Hall)

19.  Adam Horálek / Nation Building in Aging Taiwan: A Gellnerian Perspective (Comment by Alan Macfarlane)

20.  Grażyna Kubica / Gellner's Theory of Nationalism and the Study of Silesianess (Comment by Marcin Brocki)

21.  Vytis Čiubrinskas / The Politics of Ethnification: The Political Subjectivity of Nation-States vis-à-vis the Polish Minority in Eastern Europe (Comment by Zdeněk Uherek)

22.  Zdeněk Uherek / From Interdependence to Disjunction: Gellner´s Theory and the

Development of the Interrelationship Between the Concepts of Nation and

Nationalism  (Comment by Vytis Čiubrinskas)

 

General comments: Aleksandar Bošković, Nikola Balaš, Petr Skalník

 

Index

O autorze

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.

Blurb

This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21^st century through the prism of Ernest Gellner’s work. The contributors look critically at Gellner´s legacy, questioning whether he remains an inspiration for today’s social theorists. Chapters proactively probe Gellner’s thoughts on a variety of pressing topics—modernity, postcolonialsm, nationalism, and more—without losing sight of current debates on these issues. This volume further brings these debates to life by having each chapter followed by a comment by an academic peer of the chapter author, thus transforming the text into a lively and dynamic conversation.

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.