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  • POSTMODERNISM, REASON AND RELIGION
    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 thi...

    $979.00

  • THE DEVIL IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY
    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 Ame...

    $1,379.00

  • CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT AND POLITICS
    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 ...

    $1,139.00

  • CAUSE AND MEANING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
    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 ...

    $1,139.00

  • RAZON Y CULTURA
    GELLNER ERNEST
    Razón y cultura; La raíces de la compulsión; Los enfrentamientos de la razón; Los enemigos mundanos de la razón; Las dolencias de la razón; Contracorrientes; La racionalidad como modo de vida; Prometeo perplejo; Recapitulación. ...
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