This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21st 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.
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Chapter 1:
Introduction: Gellner s Legacy Continues to Inspire. - Chapter 2: Gellner and the Habsburg Window on Modernity. - Chapter 3: Postcolonialism as a Possibility: A Dialogue That Never Happened. - Chapter 4: The Persistence of the Individualism Debate Today. - Chapter 5: Ernest Gellner and the Limits of Understanding. - Chapter 6: The Ghost in the Machine: Gellner and Beyond with Data-Driven and Formalized Social Theory. - Chapter 7: A Critique of Gellner s Neo-Liberalism: Economy, Equality, Epistemology. - Chapter 8: Gellner in the Anthropocene: Modernity, Nationalism and Climate Change. - Chapter 9: Ernest Gellner and Populism. - Chapter 10: Gellner and the Historians. - Chapter 11: War and Group Solidarity: From Ibn Khaldun to Ernest Gellner and Beyond. - Chapter 12: The Importance of Reading Ernest: Historical Methodologies as Hidden Resources for Anthropology. - Chapter 13: Ernest Gellner and Debates about World History Periodization. - Chapter 14: Islam, Plato, and Protestantism: Gellner and the Maghreb Society. - Chapter 15: The Philosopher of Anthropology. - Chapter 16: Ernest Gellner as Anthropologist. - Chapter 17: Gellner: Right and Wrong. - Chapter 18: Re-visiting Gellner s Social Theory on Islam, Modernity, and the State: the Turkish Case. - Chapter 19: After Ernest Gellner: Nationalism and Nation-States Today. - Chapter 20: Nation Building in Aging Taiwan: A Gellnerian Perspective. - Chapter 21: Gellner' s Theory of Nationalism and the Study of Silesianess. - Chapter 22: The Politics of Ethnification: The Political Subjectivity of Nation-States vis-à-vis the Polish Minority in Eastern Europe. - Chapter 23: From Interdependence to Disjunction: Gellner s Theory and the Development of the Interrelationship Between the Concepts of Nation and Nationalism.
