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Nations and Nationalism

By: Ernest Gellner

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By: Ernest Gellner

Originally published as hbk.: Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., Ã2006.

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Encounters With Nationalism

By: Ernest Gellner

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The forecast demise of nationalism under the new moral orders of communism and internationalism has proved illusory. In the present century, to an extent greater perhaps than in all others, nationalism has been the dominant force in the affairs of humankind. Why should this have been? Why is it that a national identity should continue to be the aspiration of almost all peoples without one and, at the same time, the justification - in the process of obtaining, securing and expanding it- for casting aside every trace and tradition of civility? In Encounters with Nationalism Ernest Gellner seeks some answers. His approach is to consider first the ideas of the main modern thinkers on the subject, from Marx, List, Malinowski and Carr, to Masaryk, Heidegger, Patocka, Hroch, Havel and Said. He examines the origins, subjects and context of their writings, their interactions with culture and politics, and their influence - both on theory and on events. The range is wide, covering Eastern, Western and Islamic societies, and includes extensive discussions of the related themes of civil society, theocracy, communism, imperialism, capitalism and liberalism. Professor Gellner is never less than trenchant. He is concerned here not only to understand, but to criticize. He confronts several powerful and fashionable notions that fuel and/or attempt to explain contemporary nationalism - among them postcolonialism. On the one hand he exposes their incoherence and irresponsibility; on the other he places them alongside ideas of real currency. Nor does he evade the controversy surrounding the nature of judgement itself: the reader will also find here concise and penetrating discussions of relativism, pluralism, objectivity and the possibility of universal values.

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0631194819

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Anthropology and Politics

Revolutions in the Sacred Grove

By: Ernest Gellner

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Anthropology and Politics

Revolutions in the Sacred Grove

By: Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner explores here the links between anthropology and politics, and shows just how central these are. The recent postmodernist turn in anthropology has been linked to the expiation of colonial guilt. Traditional, functionalist anthropology is characteristically regarded as an accessory to the crime, and anyone critical of the relativistic claims of interpretative anthropology (as Ernest Gellner is) is likely to be charged (as he sometimes is) with being an ex post imperialist. Ernest Gellner argues that cultures are crucially important in human life as constraining systems of meaning. Cultural transition means that the required characteristics are transmitted from generation to generation, leading, he shows, to both greater diversity and to far more rapid change than is possible among species where transmission is primarily by genetic means. But the relative importance of semantic and physical compulsion needs to be explored rather than pre-judged. The weakness of idealism, which at present operates under the name of hermeneutics, is that it underplays the importance of coercion, and that it presents cultures as self-justifying and morally sovereign: this line of argument, the author demonstrates, is fundamentally flawed.

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Reason and Culture

By: Ernest Gellner

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Reason and Culture

By: Ernest Gellner

Since the seventeenth century, Western society has had a turbulent relationship with Reason. Descartes set out to reorganize all his opinions in the light of Reason, allowing, as Pascal bitterly reproached him, nothing else. In the course of the centuries which followed, the relationship with Reason became the object of a vigorous, often passionate debate. David Hume declared Reason to be impotent; Immanuel Kant observed that men suffered from "misology" as the result of their disappointed expectations of Reason; G. W. F. Hegel declared that the main insight of philosophy consisted of the realization that reason masterminded and guided all history. The debate has not remained restricted to philosophy. Max Weber, the most influential modern sociologist, was obsessed with the distinctive role of Reason in Western society, and the part it played in engendering industrialism. Social anthropologists have been preoccupied both with the universality and the diversity of conceptual thought. Emile Durkheim taught them to ask why all men were rational, whilst Max Weber taught sociologists to ask why some men were more rational than others. This book brings together the philosophical, historical and sociological discussions of rationality and strives to make clear the underlying issues and the continuity of the debate under the various idioms.

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Nationalism

By: Ernest Gellner

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Nationalism

By: Ernest Gellner

In this provocative essay, finished just before the author's death, Gellner explores the subject with which he was most associated throughout his life: that of nationalism. He demonstrates how the histories of nationalism and industrialization are crucially linked and, drawing together the history of philosophy, economics and political thought, he contrasts nationalism with religious fundamentalism in a debate that remains of continuing importance to modern politics and international relations.

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Nations and Nationalism

By: Ernest Gellner

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Nations and Nationalism

By: Ernest Gellner

Originally published as hbk.: Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., Ã2006.

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Language and Solitude

Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma

By: Ernest Gellner

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Language and Solitude

Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma

By: Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner's final book, first published in 1998, is a synoptic interpretation of the thought of Wittgenstein and Malinowski.

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The Devil in Modern Philosophy

By: Ernest Gellner

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The Devil in Modern Philosophy

By: Ernest Gellner

The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America.

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1134413246

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Words and Things

An Examination Of, and an Attack On, Linguistic Philosophy

By: Ernest Gellner

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Words and Things

An Examination Of, and an Attack On, Linguistic Philosophy

By: Ernest Gellner

First published in 1959, this classic challenge to the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, remains the most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom in philosophy to this day.

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Psychology Press

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0415345480

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The Psychoanalytic Movement

The Cunning of Unreason

By: Ernest Gellner

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The Psychoanalytic Movement

The Cunning of Unreason

By: Ernest Gellner

The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions. Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about emotion. Argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy. Includes new foreword by Jose Brunner that expands on the central argument of the book and argues that Gellner and Freud might be seen as kindred spirits.

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0470775300

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Relativism and the Social Sciences

By: Ernest Gellner

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Relativism and the Social Sciences

By: Ernest Gellner

Considers human diversity and change and rejects the usual solutions to problems of relativism. Presents a new mode of inquiry in its stead a mixture of philosophy, history, and anthropology that appears to be more meaningful.

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Muslim Society

By: Ernest Gellner

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Muslim Society

By: Ernest Gellner

Why contemporary Islam is able to support austerely traditional and conservative regimes as well as revolutionary ones is the subject of this collection of essays. Professor Gellner's position is supported by a series of case studies and critical evaluations of rival interpretations.

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0521274079

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Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences

By: Ernest Gellner

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Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences

By: Ernest Gellner

This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time.

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Spectacles and Predicaments

Essays in Social Theory

By: Ernest Gellner

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Spectacles and Predicaments

Essays in Social Theory

By: Ernest Gellner

A collection of essays concerned with some key problems in the study of philosophy, politics and society.

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The Ambivalences of Rationality

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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The Ambivalences of Rationality

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

Cross-cultural examination of notions and practices of rationality in ancient and modern societies, drawing on philosophy, ethnography and cognitive science.

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The Devil in Modern Philosophy

By: Ernest Gellner

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Contemporary Thought and Politics

By: Ernest Gellner

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Contemporary Thought and Politics

By: Ernest Gellner

Gellner's political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought. In these essays Gellner strives to understand the religions of nationalism, communism and democracy, returning again and again to the basic values of the liberal: social tolerance, rational criticism, human decency and justice.

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Culture, Identity, and Politics

By: Ernest Gellner

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Culture, Identity, and Politics

By: Ernest Gellner

An exploration of the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world through essays on such varied topics as the Ayatollah Khomeni, Czech dissidents, and Malinowski.

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Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

By: Ernest Gellner

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Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

By: Ernest Gellner

First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns itself to treating truth as relative to the society or culture in question. The third, which Gellner calls enlightenment rationalism, upholds the idea that there is a unique truth, but denies that any society can ever possess it definitively. Learned and stimulating, Professor Gellner’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of postmodernism and the relations between Islam and the West. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the ideological condition of contemporary society.

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Spectacles and Predicaments

Essays in Social Theory

By: Ernest Gellner

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Essays in Social Theory

By: Ernest Gellner

A collection of essays concerned with some key problems in the study of philosophy, politics and society.

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Culture, Identity, and Politics

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Culture, Identity, and Politics

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An exploration of the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world through essays on such varied topics as the Ayatollah Khomeni, Czech dissidents, and Malinowski.

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Ernest Gellner, Selected Philosophical Themes

By: Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism Ernest Gellner,Ernest Gellner

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Ernest Gellner, Selected Philosophical Themes

By: Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism Ernest Gellner,Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner made major contributions in very diverse fields, notably philosophy and social anthropology. His attacks on the orthodoxies of his time made it difficult for him to be fully accepted into either of these academic communities, but that suited him well enough: he seemed to enjoy leading a one-man crusade for critical rationalism, defending enlightenment universalism against the rising tides of idealism and relativism. His influence spread far beyond social anthropology: the fierce tone of the polemics of the 1950s against Oxford philosophers was repeated during the 1990s in tangles in the TLS with the literary critic Edward Said. For Gellner the issues were essentially the same: the vital need to refute the claim that ideas lead the world.

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0415302951

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On the Nation and the Jewish People

By: Ernest Renan,Shlomo Sand

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On the Nation and the Jewish People

By: Ernest Renan,Shlomo Sand

Ernest Renan was one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the nineteenth century in France, the man who first opened up the study of nationalism. In this book, Shlomo Sand, the author of the best-selling The Invention of the Jewish People, demonstrates the complexity of Renan's thought. Sand shows the relationship of Renan's work to that of key twentieth-century thinkers on nationalism, such as Raymond Aron and Ernest Gellner, and argues for the continued importance of studying Renan. Alongside his essay, Sand presents two classic lectures by Renan: the first, the renowned "What Is a Nation?", argues that nations are not based upon race, religion, and language; in the second he uses historical evidence to show that the Jews cannot be considered a "pure ethnos." On the Nation and the Jewish People is an important contribution to the understanding of nationalism, bringing back into play the work of a profoundly misunderstood thinker.

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Magic, Reason, and Experience

Studies in the Origins and Development of Greek Science

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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Magic, Reason, and Experience

Studies in the Origins and Development of Greek Science

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

This study of the origins and progress of Greek science focuses especially on the interaction between scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the sixth to the fourth century BC. It begins with an examination of how particular Greek authors deployed the category of "magic," sometimes attacking its beliefs and practices; these attacks are then related to their background in Greek medicine and philosophical thought. In his second chapter Lloyd outlines developments in the theory and practice of argument in Greek science and assesses their significance. He next discuses the progress of empirical research as a scientific tool from the Presocratics to Aristotle. Finally, he considers why the Greeks invented science, their contribution to its history, and the social, economic, ideological and political factors that had a bearing on its growth.

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0872205282

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Legitimation of Belief

By: Ernest Gellner

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Legitimation of Belief

By: Ernest Gellner

The main aim of this thoughtful and thought-provoking book is to characterize and explain the difference between pre-scientific systems of belief within which science could, and did, emerge and develop. Using the armoury of both philosophy and anthropology, Ernest Gellner attacks his task with his customary sharp wit and polemical gusto." - Times Literary Supplement.

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Plough, Sword, and Book

The Structure of Human History

By: Ernest Gellner

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Plough, Sword, and Book

The Structure of Human History

By: Ernest Gellner

Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226287025

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Language and Solitude

Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and the Habsburg Dilemma

By: Ernest Gellner

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Language and Solitude

Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and the Habsburg Dilemma

By: Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) has been described as 'one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals'. His last book throws new 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.

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661042019X

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Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics

By: Paul Ernest

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Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics

By: Paul Ernest

Extends the ideas of social constructivism to the philosophy of mathematics, developing a powerful critique of traditional absolutist conceptions of mathematics, and proposing a reconceptualization of the philosophy of mathematics.

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0791435873

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Demystifying Mentalities

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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Demystifying Mentalities

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

Professor Lloyd explores cultural diversity in terms of communication and not mentality.

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The Ideals of Inquiry

An Ancient History

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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The Ideals of Inquiry

An Ancient History

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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0198705603

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The Earth and its Inhabitants. North America

Vol. II

By: Ernest George Ravenstein,Elisée Reclus,Augustus Henry Keane

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The Earth and its Inhabitants. North America

Vol. II

By: Ernest George Ravenstein,Elisée Reclus,Augustus Henry Keane

Reprint of the original, first published in 1891.

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3385466636

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Exploring Reality and Its Uncertainties

By: Ernest Krausz

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Exploring Reality and Its Uncertainties

By: Ernest Krausz

Using the tools of science, philosophy and the social sciences, this book explores the numerous facets of what we understand reality to mean. It focuses on the human side, especially on the individual experience of reality as manifested through personality, cognitive power, self-consciousness, and rationalistic and communicative endowments.

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An Introduction to Sociology

By: John Ernest Goldthorpe,J. E. Goldthorpe

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An Introduction to Sociology

By: John Ernest Goldthorpe,J. E. Goldthorpe

The third edition of An Introduction to Sociology, with major revisions to the text.

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Politics and Society in Israel

By: Ernest Krausz

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Politics and Society in Israel

By: Ernest Krausz

This series of the Israeli Sociological Society, whose object is to identify and clarify the major themes that occupy social research in Israel today, gathers together the best of Israeli social science investigation that was previously scattered in a large variety of international journals. Each book in the series is introduced by integrative essays. Each volume focuses on a particular topic; the first volume seeks out the dynamics of conflict and integration in a new society; the second volume is concerned with the sociology of a unique Israeli social institution—the kibbutz. The third volume presents sociological perspectives on political life and culture in Israel. Articles by leading scholars deal with: historical development; political culture and ideology; political institutions and behavior; the social basis of politics; and social change. Volume III also includes a select bibliography. Contributors to Volume III (tentative): Karl W. Deutsch, Yonathan Shapiro, Dan Horowitz, Moshe Lissak, Daniel Elazar, Asher Arian, Charles Liebman, Erik Cohen, Yoram Peri, Ephraim Yaar, S. Smooha.

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1351498398

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East German-west German Relations And The Fall Of The Gdr

By: Ernest D. Plock

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East German-west German Relations And The Fall Of The Gdr

By: Ernest D. Plock

This book investigates inner-German economic ties, travel contacts, and national consciousness that proved to be of greater consequence after Gorbachev's accession to power. It addresses the inevitability of the German Democratic Republic revolution and unification with the Federal Republic.

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What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings

By: Ernest Renan

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What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings

By: Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan was one of the leading lights of the Parisian intellectual scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. A philologist, historian, and biblical scholar, he was a prominent voice of French liberalism and secularism. Today most familiar in the English-speaking world for his 1882 lecture “What Is a Nation?” and its definition of a nation as an “everyday plebiscite,” Renan was a major figure in the debates surrounding the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, and the birth of the Third Republic and had a profound influence on thinkers across the political spectrum who grappled with the problem of authority and social organization in the new world wrought by the forces of modernization. What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings is the first English-language anthology of Renan’s political thought. Offering a broad selection of Renan’s writings from several periods of his public life, most previously untranslated, it restores Renan to his place as one of France’s major liberal thinkers and gives vital critical context to his views on nationalism. The anthology illuminates the characteristics that distinguished nineteenth-century French liberalism from its English and American counterparts as well as the more controversial parts of Renan’s legacy, including his analysis of colonial expansion, his views on Islam and Judaism, and the role of race in his thought. The volume contains a critical introduction to Renan’s life and work as well as detailed annotations that assist in recovering the wealth and complexity of his thought.

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0231547145

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Science, Folklore and Ideology

Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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Science, Folklore and Ideology

Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

This text takes a set of central topics from ancient Greek medicine and biology - relating especially to beliefs about animals, women and drugs - and studies first the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore, and second the ideological character of ancient scientific inquiry. Within this framework the author looks at the development of zoological taxonomy, the repercussions of prevailing Greek assumptions concerning the inferiority of the female sex on medical practice, pharmacology and anatomy. Anthropology is used to provide a comparative dimension to the discussion of ancent Greek popular beliefs.

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