By Siniŝa Maleŝević, Mark Haugaard
Ernest Gellner used to be a different pupil whose paintings coated parts as assorted as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic international, nationalism, psychoanalysis, East ecu ameliorations and kinship buildings. regardless of this variety, there's a superb measure of cohesion and coherence in Gellner's paintings together with his exceedingly modernist, rationalist and liberal world-view obtrusive in every thing he wrote. His valuable frustrating is still consistent: knowing how the trendy international got here into being and to what volume it truly is specific relative to all different social types. Ten years after his dying, this publication brings jointly best social theorists to judge the importance of Gellner's legacy and to reconsider his critical matters. It corrects many misunderstandings and severely engages with Gellner's legacy to supply a leading edge contribution to knowing our modern post-9/11, worldwide, overdue glossy, social situation.
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1994. Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals. London: Hamish Hamilton. Introduction: an intellectual rebel with a cause 27 1997. Nationalism. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1998. Language and Solitude. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hall, J. A. 1998. Introduction. In J. A. ), The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lichtheim, G. 1965. Review of Thought and Change. The New Statesman 69: 6. Part I Civil society, coercion and liberty 1 Ernest Gellner on liberty and modernity Alan Macfarlane Ernest Gellner was in many respects a late Enlightenment thinker.
The tree of the state will be bare, just power and order, a machine for fighting an endless war. This suppression of democracy through fear of war is the normal human condition and has occurred in almost all great civilisations from China to Spain. There were small-scale exceptions – Athens, early Rome, the early Italian city-states, the Dutch – but there have only been three larger exceptions. These were cases where, by an accident of history, a water boundary protected a growing nation from the threat of landed attack.
There are only tendencies and patterns, no laws. Here I would like to add to my suggestion of ways in which his work could be elaborated and modified by briefly exploring three further themes. The nature and origins of civil society in Europe The first is the nature and origins of civil society. Gellner seems to assume that civil society, that is the plethora of institutions which lie above the individual and family, but are not part of the state, emerges naturally if the separation of spheres occurs.