Contemporary Thought and Politics

Earnest Gellner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2009
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-48862-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Gellner, Ernest

Preface, Acknowledgments, 1. Prepare to meet thy doom: A sermon on the ambivalences of progress, reason, liberty, equality and fraternity, 2. Myth, ideology and revolution, 3. Democracy and industrialization, 4. Contemporary thought and politics, 5. Behind the barricades at LSE, 6. The panther and the dove: Reflections on rebelliousness and its milieux, 7. How to live in anarchy, 8. The concept of a story, 9. Our current sense of history, 10. Ernst Kolman: or, knowledge and communism, 11. Scale and nation, 12. The pluralist anti-levellers of Prague, 13. The dangers of tolerance, 14. On democracy in France, Sources, Index of names, Index of subjects

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.12.2009
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-415-48862-1 / 0415488621
ISBN-13	978-0-415-48862-4 / 9780415488624
Zustand	Neuware